The famous eight academies in China

Nationally famous eight academies are Shigu Academy, Yingtian Academy, Yuelu Academy, Bailudong Academy, Songyang Academy, Maoshan Academy, Dongpo Academy and Donglin Academy.

1, Shigu Shuyuan

Shigu Shuyuan, is located in hengyang city, hunan province, shigu district xiaoxiang street xiangjiang north road 69. Located in the north of Hengyang city steam, Xiang, Lei three water convergence of the Shigu hill, was built in Tang Yuanhe five years. It is one of the important birthplaces of Hunan culture. Ming Xu Xiake praised it as "Shigu Academy with Tengwang Pavilion and Yellow Crane Tower"; it is one of the four major ancient academies in China together with Songyang Academy, Bailudong Academy and Yuelu Academy, and it is known as "Hengxiang and Su Si", and "Taoist South Pure Vein". It is known as "Hengxiang Su Si" and "Dao Nan Zheng Vein".

2. Yingtian Academy

Yingtian Academy, also known as Yingtianfu Academy, Suoyang Academy, Nanjing Academy, Nandu Academy and Nanjing State Academy, is located at the South Lake of Shangqiu Ancient City in Suoyang District of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, and is one of the four famous academies in ancient China. The main attractions in the academy are: Chongsheng Hall, Dacheng Hall, the former lecture hall, the main gate of the academy, the Royal Book Building, the Scholar's Bridge, the Instructor's Mansion, the Minglun Hall, and the Corridor Room.

3, Yuelu Academy

Yuelu Academy is one of the four famous academies in Chinese history, located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River in Changsha, Hunan Province, China's historical and cultural city, as one of the world's oldest institutions of learning, and its ancient traditional academy buildings have been preserved intact to this day, and each set of courtyards, each stone tablet, each brick and mortar, each wind lotus, are all glittering with time. The humanistic spirit quenched by time is shining in every group of courtyards, every stone tablet, every brick tile and every wind lotus.

4, White Deer Cave Academy

White Deer Cave Academy, is located in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, Mount Lushan Wulao Peak south foot. "Started in the Tang, Sheng in the Song Dynasty, along the Ming and Qing Dynasties", has a history of more than 1,000 years. White Deer Cave Academy is one of the highest institutions of learning in China during the Song Dynasty, the first of the four major ancient Chinese academies, and the then Suiyang, Shiku, Yuelu Academy, known as "the world's four major academies".

5, Songyang Academy

Songyang Academy, is an ancient Chinese institution of higher learning, is located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Dengfeng City, 3 kilometers north of the Junji Peak. Was built in the northern Wei dynasty in eight years, the initial name of songyang temple, for the buddhist temple. Song jinghu two years to rebuild too room academy when the name songyang academy, and set up the dean in charge of the affairs of the academy. Songyang Academy is one of the birthplaces of Cheng Zhu Science in Song Dynasty. Its architectural style is a "specimen" for the study of the architecture of ancient Chinese academies, the education system and Confucian culture.

6, maoshan academy

Maoshan Academy, also known as the Jinshan Academy, by the Division of Hou Zhui in the Northern Song Dynasty in the second year of the creation of Jurong, Jiangsu, Maoshan, is one of the Northern Song Dynasty, six major academies, regrettably, there is no history of the earliest site in the old school in the back of the Jiangning Province, three Maoshan, the Southern Song Dynasty, seven years of Hamchon, moved to the foothills of the Jintan County, Gu Longshan. Today to explore the rise and fall of the Maoshan Academy, not only to observe the history of the Chinese Academy changes, but also to revisit the Jintan ancient style of respect for literature and learning.

7, Dongpo Academy

Dongpo Academy, also known as "Dongpo Ancestral Hall", "Shushan Academy", is located in Yixing City, Dingshu Town, Shushan Village. It is now Dongpo Elementary School. It was built in the Northern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 850 years. Dongpo Academy has a close relationship with Su Dongpo, an outstanding writer in Chinese history, who was talented and contributed to the development of Chinese literature and art in many ways, especially prose, which was praised by the world and listed as one of the eight great writers of the Tang and Song dynasties.

8, Donglin Academy

Donglin Academy has inspired many intellectuals, the development of China's traditional culture and thought to promote greatly. Therefore, the movement of the dynasty and the countryside, some of the sea hold the road to disobedience of the scholars and so on are admiring and, heard the wind sound attached, all to the Eastwood as a return to the school house to the can not accommodate, a moment of unprecedented prosperity, become the Jiangnan humanities will be a large area.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shigu Academy