明末天主教儒士朱宗元因其生平资料的匮乏而引起学界广泛争议,其生年考证更是焦点所在。通过对其著作《答客问》、《破迷论》及其受洗年份关系的考证,基本可以判定其出生于1616年,其后著述传教,开创了天主教在宁波的传播与发展。 Due to the lack of material of his life, Zhu Zongyuan, a Catholic Confucianist at the end of the Ming Dynasty, caused widespread controversy in his academic circles. His research on his lifetime was even more focused. Through his textual research on the relationship between answering questions, breaking the mirage and the year of being baptized, the author can basically determine that he was born in 1616, and later wrote a book of missionary work, which initiated the spread and development of Catholicism in Ningbo.