Yuelu Academy: A Thousand Years of Learning, Preaching to the People

Ten years ago, I work for the company to build corporate universities. The company's then head of the school site was selected in Shenyang chessboard mountain Mantang township in a depression. In order to make it become a "breeding elite dojo, recreate the cradle of the soul", but also specially recommended that the preparatory team must make a special trip to see the Yuelu Academy.

In a flash, many years have passed. This time to visit the Yuelu Academy, accompanied by the drizzle, really have a different flavor in the heart.

After the first door, look up and see the "millennium school" plaque, such as raindrops on the water, the bottom of the heart all of a sudden flooded with layers of ripples.

"Beginning, the opening of the treasure in the county guard Zhu Dong Shudu base of creation, to wait for the four sides of the scholars." The west bank of the Xiangjiang River, Qingfeng Gorge, "thought that the meeting of friends lectures, Cheng Mo this place is also appropriate." So, this was born in the Northern Song Kai Bao nine years (976 years) of the academy, "Drums and books to the hall one after another," after more than a thousand years of wind and rain and not defeated. To this day, it is still the only ancient academy in China that still enrolls students. For thousands of years, Yuelu Academy has passed on the dreams of generations of scholars. "Covering the desire to achieve talent, in order to preach and help the people also", is the holy land of Hunan culture.

Through the gate, "but Chu has talent, in this case for the prosperity".

A link into the eye, there is as rain all of a sudden big up, crackling on the water surface as if the water ? Boiling general. Good domineering couplet ah. It is said that the first line from the "Zuozhuan - Xianggong twenty-six years": "Although Chu has talent, Jin practical." The next couplet is from "The Analects of Confucius - Tai Bo": "The time of Tang and Yu, the time of the Yu Si is prosperous." The general idea is that there are many talents in Chu, and the Yuelu Academy is especially prosperous.

Is that so? Open the door of thought, through the historical time, as if to see an academic everyone, generations of historical celebrities are coming to us. (bark) of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty thinker Wang Fuzhi, the Qing Dynasty Tao Shu, Wei Yuan, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Guo Songtao, Hu Linyi, the Republic of Xiong Xiling, Yang Changji, Cheng Qian, as well as in the history of the party in the Chinese *** familiar Cai Hesen, Deng Zhongxia, He Shuheng, Li Da, Xie Juya, Zhou Xiao-zhou, and so on, the list goes on and on. Mao Zedong also lived here several times in his youth. Talent, in this for the flourishing, pragmatic, millennium, this is not exactly a true reflection of the Yuelu Academy?

Into the second door, standing in the "famous mountain altar seat" plaque, as far as the eye can see is that year's lecture hall. Lecture hall two walls were embedded with "loyalty, filial piety, integrity, section" and "whole, Qi, strict, solemn" monument, "because of the students". In the center of a rectangular pulpit, backed by a wooden screen, engraved with the head of the mountain Zhang (bark) written "Yuelu Shuyuan record". Two seats on the pulpit, which is the head of the mountain and the deputy lecturer's seat.

Standing in front of the hall, such as when the students as respectfully standing under the hall, imagine the class, the hall on the two divisions are seated, preaching the law, the hall on the hall under the question and answer questions, this is today's education sector widely respected interactive teaching method ah. When Zhu Xi "resigned from his home in mid-autumn, tax drive in early September," not far from this and Zhang (bark) will speak, "and the defense", "three days and nights and can not be combined", the atmosphere is warm, listening to the crowd, "a time when the crowd of carriage and horses," the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience, the audience. "a crowd of horses and carriages, drinking pool water dried up", thousands of students, "Xiaoxiang acacia city", such a teaching situation and learning scene, not only at that time, even today, is also equally exciting. And more than eight hundred years ago Zhu Xi here to establish the "learning, thinking, arguing and acting" of the "order of learning", in teaching activities advocate focusing on self-learning, independent thinking, questioning and debating, learning and thinking, unity of knowledge and action, is not precisely the creation of a learning organization today to explore and follow the learning rules. The first time I saw this is when I was a student at the University of California.

Standing in the courtyard, convergence of breath meditation, as if to feel the thick breath of Hunan culture thousands of years of precipitation, and talent, in the strong aura of the Sheng.

Yuelu Academy, when with the White Deer Cave Academy, Songyang Academy, Yingtianfu Academy and known as the "Four Great Academies". The same as other academies, Yuelu Academy is also built in the shape of the place, beautiful scenery, elegant scenery, because the earliest academy is the dissemination of science, in the academy is not only teaching knowledge, more importantly, is to say "reason", gather "gas", pass the "way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way", "the way". "The purpose of the academy is to let people improve their self-cultivation and realize moral sublimation. Therefore, "they chose a place to live and set up a seminary." Unlike other academies, Yuelu Academy is not an official school, but from the beginning of the opening, to the re-emergence of successive generations, has been supported and assisted by the imperial court and the local government, and has become a de facto local institution of higher learning, renowned all over the world.

Song Xiangfu eight years, the imperial gift "Yuelu Academy" plaque and House books. Ming Jiajing nine years, awarded the imperial "Jingyi" all the aphorisms, books, set the head of the mountain. Qing emperor Kangxi 26 years, the imperial "learning up to the nature of the sky" plaque, and sent thirteen classics, twenty-one history and other scriptures lecture notes. In the ninth year of the Qing dynasty Qianlong, the royal book "Tao Nan Zheng Vein", highly recognized its work of spreading science, and instantly became the most influential education center in the country. Later, Hunan University was established on this basis, and in 1950, Chairman Mao Zedong handwrote "Hunan University" and appointed Li Da, a representative of the First Congress of the People's Republic of China, as the first president of the university.

The man is gone, but the idea is engraved.

Let's walk through, tasting a couplet, a monument, roaming a shrine, a pavilion, listening to the water spring, see the kite flying fish leaping, swim in the shade of the flower path, enjoy the wind and lotus evening fragrance, in this reading and poor reasoning, to maintain the mind and body, preaching to the people, is not a happy place. In this way, to build a corporate university to Yuelu Academy when the matter of enlightenment, but also an epiphany.

Saying goodbye, the mind is still lingering in the Shuyuan in a couplet, do not dare to forget, but also can not forget. "Governance is not ancient and modern, Yucai is urgent, not diffuse view of the four sea trend of thousands of lectures; Learning has been due to the revolution, pass into the male, try to speculate on the Zhuzhang intention of the gas Mao Cai wind God." Just try to interpret it. Regardless of the ancient and modern governance, talent training is the most important, and can not ignore the world trend, historical trends and the tradition of the millennium school. Governance should be inherited, but also to innovate, to grasp the way of change is the real hero, think about it, to learn here is not Zhu Xi and Zhang (bark) concept of governance, Mao Zedong and Cai and Sen's style of the world.

This thought, more feel that this trip.

From the academy out, light rain has become medium to heavy rain. Wind by rain, rain help wind power, sweeping shoes and socks and pants are wet, the heart not only did not have a trace of frustration and annoyance, but feel in such a cultural station, bathing a cohesive Yuelu Academy essence of the rain, is really a joyful thing, but also a lucky thing.