Why "Yuelu Academy" is known as the "Millennium Academy"?

Yuelu Academy is one of the four major ancient academies in China, and its predecessor can be traced back to the end of the Tang Dynasty (about 958), Zhirui and other two monks run the school. Northern Song Kai Bao nine years (976), Tanzhou governor Zhu Dong in the monks on the basis of the school, the formal establishment of Yuelu Shuyuan. Subsequently, through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, to the end of the Qing dynasty Guangxu twenty-ninth year (1903) changed to Hunan Higher Education School, then changed to Hunan Higher Normal School, Hunan Industrial Specialized Schools, officially named Hunan University in 1926 to date, after thousands of years, song and song, so the world called the "thousand years of learning".

Yuelu Academy since its inception, that is, for its schooling and dissemination of academic culture and famous. Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty summoned Zhou style, awarded the title, the name of the academy began to be heard in the world, "Xiaoxiang Su Si" reputation. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Bishop Zhang, Zhu Xi lectured twice. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty bestowed the title of "Jingyi Proverbs", Wang Yangming's school of thought and the Donglin School of thought spread and exchanged here, and Wang Fuzhi, the famous patriotic thinker of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, studied here. "Tao Nan Zheng Vein" forehead.

Yuelu Academy covers an area of 21,000 square meters, most of the existing buildings for the Ming and Qing dynasty relics, the main building has a head gate, the second door, lecture hall, half of the school lounge, teaching lounge, hundred springs Xuan, the Royal Book Building, Xiangshui school of scripture, Temple of Literature, etc., is divided into lectures, book collection, for the rituals of three major parts of the interconnectedness of each part of a whole, a complete show of the ancient Chinese architectural grandeur of the grandeur of the magnificent scene.

In addition to architectural relics, Yuelu Academy is also famous for preserving a large number of monuments and plaques, such as the Tang engraved "Lushan Temple Monument", the Ming engraved Song Zhenzong's handwritten "Yuelu Academy" stone monument, "Cheng Zi four aphorisms Monument ", the Qing dynasty imperial plaque "learning up to the nature of the sky", "Road South positive pulse", the Qing dynasty carved Zhu Xi "loyalty, filial piety and integrity monument", Ouyang Zhenghuan "neat and serious monument", Wang Wenqing "Yuelu Academy school rules monument" and so on.