Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen:
Today we will go and visit the Yuelu Academy Yuelu Academy is one of the four famous academies in China and it was established by Zhudong magistrate of Tanzhou prefecture in 976AD at the time of Northern Song Dynasty The academy accepted disciples throughout the Song Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties It was only in 1903 that the academy was transformed from a school of traditional Confucian learning to an insitute of higher learning and in 1926 it was officially named Hunan University
Early in 1015 Emperor Zhen Zong of the Song Dynasty awarded the academy hid Majesty’s own handwriting Yuelu Academy on a tablet Form then on many famous scholars and great thinkers gave lectures here among them were Zhangshi Zhuxi and WangYangming thus making a great impact on the province’s culture and education Most of the existing buildings here were constructions of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the bulk of the engraved stone plates and inscribed tablets have all been kept intact In 1956 the academy was listed as a historical site at the provincial level and later in 1988 it became a historical site at the state level The last restoration project started in 1981 and the major part was completed in 1987
Now here we are at the He Xi Platform He Xi means the the splendour of the sunrise It was named by Zhuxi a great idealist philosopher of the Confucian school during the Song Dynasty The platform was first built on the top of Yuelu hill by Zhanshi and later in 1528 a pavilion was built on it But it became deserted with the passing time In 1790 Luodian the master of the academy built a platform at the present site In 1820 the succeeding master Ouyang Houjun renamed it He Xi Platform in order to memory Zhuxi and Zhanshi It was restored in 1868
On the inner walls of the platform are two big Chinese characters Fu and Shuo which mean blessing and longevity respectively Legend has it that the Character Shuo was written with a broom soaked in yellow mud by a Taoist master at the time Master Luodian was attending a banquet in honour of the examination officials and those dispels who had passed the civil exam Hence it has been regarded as having celestial touch The character Fu was written by Luodian the master himself
This gate in front of us is the Main Gate the gate was formerly built at the time of the Song Dynasty and was then called Central Gate The main gate underwent both destruction and reconstruction in the course of time The present structure was once thoroughly renovated in 1868
The characters Yuelu Academy on the horizontal tablet were inscribed by Emperor Zhen Zong of the Song Dynasty It was presented as an award to Zhoushi the master of the academy when he was summoned to the emperor’s presence On both door posts are couplets which read The kingdom of Chu unique home of the talents The Academy of Yuelu the very cradle of all It was composed in the Qing Dynasty by the master of the academy Yuan Jiangang and his disciple Zhang Renjie
This gate was the Second Gate It was first built in 1527 during the Ming Dynasty It underwent repairs and restoration many times It was completely devastated during the AntiJapanese War In 1984 the gate was restored to its former state
This is the Lecture Hall where the students had lessons here it was first built at the time of the Song Dynasty and was once named Jing Yi Hall Now it has a more elaborate name The Hall of the Loyalty Filiality Honesty and Integrity because on the inner walls of the hall are engraved four big Chinese Characters loyalty filiality honesty and integrity They were handwriting by the great scholar Zhuxi who once lectured here Others such as the School Regulations the Administrations and Way to Read were masterpieces of the masters of the academy On the two horizontal tablets hanging on top were written
Learn before you can probe the infiniteness of the universe
The doctrines taught here in the south are genuine Confucian doctrines
They were inscribed by the emperor Kangxi and Qianlong respectively during the Qing Dynasty
The building in front of us is the Yushu Library yushu literally means imperial books so Yushu Library built in 999AD in the early Song Dynasty was a place to keep imperial books Books were continuously sent here during the succeeding dynasties The library was first named Classics Treasuring House in the Song Dynasty Classic Venerating House in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties and finally Yushu Library in the Qing Dynasty It had been repaired and expanded many times and now it has a collection of over twenty thousand Chinese classics This building was rebuilt on its original site in 1986
The two small pavilions Xi Quan and Ni Lan built during the Song and Ming Dynasties were restored to the right and left of the compound galleries in order to display cultural relics
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