In which dynasty was Yuelu Academy built?

Yuelu Academy was built in 976 AD.

Yuelu Academy is one of the four most famous academies in Chinese history. It is located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River in Changsha, Hunan, a famous historical and cultural city in China. As one of the oldest academic institutions in the world, its ancient traditions The academy buildings have been completely preserved to this day. Every group of courtyards, every stone tablet, every brick and tile, and every wind lotus shines with the humanistic spirit tempered by time. In 1988, the Yuelu Academy building complex was approved by the State Council as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Yuelu Academy has gone through thousands of years of continuous singing and continuous learning. In the ninth year of Kaibao's reign in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 976), Zhu Dong, the prefect of Tanzhou, officially founded Yuelu Academy on the basis of the school run by monks and donations from the government. In the eighth year of the Xiangfu reign of the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1015), Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty summoned Changzhou Shi of Yuelu Mountain and gave him the four-character inscription "Yuelu Academy" on his forehead. Afterwards, it went through the Southern Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, until the 29th year of Guangxu (1903 AD) at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Yuelu Academy merged with Hunan Provincial City University Hall and was restructured into Hunan College of Higher Education, using the former site of the academy. In the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926 AD), Hunan College of Higher Education was officially named Hunan University, and it is still expanding on the base of the college to this day.

In 1986, Hunan University completed the restoration of Yuelu Academy and officially opened it to the outside world. Yuelu Academy of Hunan University was officially restored in 2005, and consists of multiple departments including the Institute of Chinese Philosophy, the Institute of History, the Institute of Chinese Thought and Culture, the Chinese Academy Research Center, and the Chinese Soft Power Culture Research Center.

In 2009, the structure of Yuelu Academy’s disciplines from undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral research stations has been completed, and it has officially become the physical educational institution and scientific research base of Hunan University. The millennium academic lineage has once again extended, and the millennium university has Add more brilliance.

Geographical environment of Yuelu Academy:

Yuelu Mountain is 300.8 meters above sea level. It has a subtropical monsoon climate with abundant precipitation, rain and heat at the same time, four distinct seasons, short spring and autumn, and long winter and summer. From a meteorological point of view, spring usually begins on March 16 and summer begins on May 19. Therefore, the temperature increases rapidly in spring, with the average temperature in March rising from 10°C to 22°C in May. The temperature changes greatly, with high temperatures It can reach over 35 degrees from the end of April to May, and the low is less than 5 degrees. In early spring, the temperature rises rapidly, and then the arrival of strong cold air will cause "late spring cold" weather.