Yuelu Academy Tickets

• Yuelu Academy, located in Changsha, Hunan, is one of the most influential academies in Chinese history. Founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, it has stood the test of a thousand years and still stands at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, like a living architectural history book, witnessing the glory of Chinese civilization.
• The architectural style of Yuelu Academy is simple and elegant, with strong characteristics of Song Dynasty architecture. The academy faces south from the north, with a brick and wood structure, black tiles and white walls, presenting the typical characteristics of Jiangnan architecture.
• The garden landscape of Yuelu Academy is unique. The "Pavilion of Six Gentlemen" is built by the pool, symbolizing the Confucian Six Arts, reflecting the academy's concept of advocating cultural education.
• Yuelu Academy has a rich collection of books and is known as the "Southern Library". Today, Yuelu Academy still adheres to tradition and holds various academic lectures, becoming an important place for inheriting the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

The central location of Yuelu Academy is the "Lecture Hall", which is the core place for the academy to conduct teaching and hold major events. Neo-Confucian scholars of the Southern Song Dynasty once held "Huijiang" (academic conferences) here. There are also a large number of steles and plaques in the academy, such as the Tang Dynasty engraving "Lushan Temple Stele", Jiangxia Leshi seal engraving; Ming Dynasty handwritten "Yuelu Academy" stone tablet, "Chengzi Four Admonitions Stele"; imperial plaques "Xue Da Xing Tian", "Dao Nan Zheng Mai", etc.