What are the origin places and representative figures of Hunan culture?

Huxiang culture is a branch of traditional Chinese culture, which is the sum of the characteristic folk customs, folklore, national character, social psychology, social consciousness and other factors that have been accumulated by people of all ethnic groups in Hunan for a long time. Hunan culture has a long history, and its historical source is the Chu culture. During the Warring States period, Changsha was already a densely populated city inhabited by the Chu people, where handicrafts and commerce were quite developed. Literature reflecting religion and mythology includes the Nine Songs, Chu Rhetoric, Nine Chapters, and Heavenly Questions from Qu Yuan's Chu Rhetoric, and the Palindromes unearthed from the Bullet Bank Chu Tomb in Changsha in 1942, as well as archaeological data on various burial practices. In addition, literature and art, including poetry, prose, music, painting, sculpture, and arts and crafts, created by the Chu people and Hunan's indigenous inhabitants***, had reached a considerable degree and standard by the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. Hunan culture belongs to Chinese traditional Confucian political culture. Its important feature is that "thought, culture, morality, ideals and beliefs are integrated into reality and serve politics.

During the Song Dynasty, Zhou Dunyi, the founder of the science of Taoism in Hunan Province, created the science of Confucianism as the core of Confucianism and Mencius, absorbed the Taoism of Laozhuang, Buddhism and Buddhism, and formed a precedent in the history of ancient Chinese thought, which opened up a "merging of three religions". The science of reasoning, also known as Taoism and Neo-Confucianism, is the ideological source of the later emergence of the "Hunan School".

Hu Anguo, the founder of the Huxiang School, founded the Wending Academy at the foot of Hengshan Mountain. He died in Hunan in the spring of 1138 and was buried in Yinshan Mountain in Xiangtan.

The Ming and Qing dynasties, Hunan Hengzhou, the emergence of science master Wang Fengshan, so that Hunan has become the formation and development of science trend of the base camp, and in this period in Hunan, the establishment of the nationally renowned Yuelu Academy, Chengnan Academy has become the main academic and cultural base of the science trend.