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Yuelu Academy 岳麓书院Yuèlù Shūyuàn
National heritage site · Changsha, Hunan
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Changsha
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yuelu Academy
Founded in 976 under the Northern Song at the eastern foot of Yuelu Mountain, Yuelu Academy was one of China's most renowned Confucian academies, where the Neo-Confucian scholars Zhu Xi and Zhang Shi lectured, and its courtyards of lecture halls, library, shrines and a Confucian temple were restored after damage in the Cultural Revolution. It became the Hunan Institute of Higher Learning in 1903 and is part of Hunan University, whose early campus buildings around it, from the Western-style Second Building of 1926 to Liu Shiying's auditorium and old library of 1946–53 with traditional-style roofs, are also protected. Most visitors combine it with a walk up Yuelu Mountain behind.
How to get to Yuelu Academy
On the Hunan University campus at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, west of the Xiang in central Changsha.
Nearby
- Hunan Museum 湖南省博物馆 under 10 km
A Han marchioness, her silk banner and a gauze robe as thin as air
Also within 20 km: Yuelu Mountain and Orange Isle 岳麓山·橘子洲 (under 10 km), Former Site of the Xinmin Study Society 新民学会成立会旧址 (under 10 km), Former Site of Hunan First Normal School 湖南省立第一师范学校旧址 (under 10 km), Cheng Qian's Mansion 程潜公馆 (under 10 km), Tianxin Pavilion 天心阁 (under 10 km), Qingshuitang (Former Site of the CCP Xiang District Committee) 清水塘 (under 10 km).
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