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Welcome to Yuelu Academy！
Welcome to Yuelu Academy！
Introduction
was formally set up in the ninth year of the Kai Bao Reign of the Northern Song Dynasty (976).
of the four most prestigious academies over the last 1000 years in China.
famous institution of higher learning as well as a centre of academic activities and cultures
History
Yuelu Academy, surviving the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning in 1903
Finally named Hunan University in 1926.
The Academy has witnessed a history of more than one thousand years without a break, so it is called a “one-thousand-year-old academy”.
The historical transformation from Yuelu Academy to Hunan University is a dramatic development of China’s higher education, which mirrors the changes of China’s education system.
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Teaching building
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Library
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Temple
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Garden
Traditional architecture
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Memorial building
Yushu Library御书楼
“御”means “it is belongs to the emperor”
When the Academy was initially founded, a library was built behind the Lecture Hall.
It was renamed “ Classics Treasuring House” in the Song Dynasty after Emperor Zhen Zong had granted books to the library. This name was also used in the Yuan Dynasty.
Functions: holding lectures, and memorial ceremonies as well as a central book repository, as in all ancient academies of China.
As a classics library with over 50,000 books, the Yushu Library is still in use for students and the faculty of the Academy.
He was a great thinker and educator in the Southern Song Dynasty. Devoting all his life to education and scholarly research, He came in person to lecture at the Academy. While there he drew up the guides for learning and renovated and extended the Academy. As a result, he contributed tremendously to its development.
Zhu Xi (1130-1200)
Zhang Shi (1132-1180)
He was a great thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty, re