Culturally the Song was diverse and rich with dancers, singers, storytellers, poetry clubs, fighting, and painting. With hostile forces on the borders an increased sense of Chinese loyalty formed, “those who felt acutely the threat posed by the northern neighbors were less open to borrowing foreign styles and more sensitive to issues of Chinese cultural identity” . With the foreigner influences surrounding them the Song began to focus on just themselves culturally. Ideas that were not naturally Chinese fell by the way side while traditional ways of Chinese thinking were revitalized. Sun fu declared “allowing a teaching of the barbarians [Buddhism] to bring disorder to the teachings of our sages is a great humiliation to Chinese scholars” . All of the enemies of the Song were zealous Buddhists, this “underlined Buddhism’s foreignness, rather than confirm it as the universal religion” . Many scholars saw Neo-Confucianism as a way to strengthen the core of Chinese culture, Neo-Confucianism also embraced some metaphysical ideas to challenge Buddhism in all aspects. Zhu Xi an influential Confucian scholar of the Song dynasty saw Buddhism as having “an inability to recognize degrees of importance” . Zhu Xi saw Buddhism as foreign and un-Chinese, after his death the government official adopted his position and made his commentaries of the classics mandatory.