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Huazhou Academy 花洲书院Huāzhōu Shūyuàn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Nanyang, Henan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Nanyang
- Region
- Henan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Huazhou Academy
An academy founded in the 1040s by the statesman Fan Zhongyan while he was governor of Dengzhou, where he wrote his famous essay 'On Yueyang Tower'. The present buildings, in Qing style, form five courtyards with a semicircular pool and bridge and a shrine to Fan, beside the Baihuazhou garden of pools and rockeries and a stretch of Ming earthen city wall.
How to get to Huazhou Academy
In the old centre of Dengzhou, about an hour by road south-west of Nanyang.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Fusheng Temple Pagoda 福胜寺塔 (under 10 km).
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