Zhu Xi (1130-1200)
He was a great thinker and
educator in the Southern Song
Dynasty. Devoting all his life to education and scholarly research, He came in person to lecture at the Academy. While there he drew up the guides for learning and renovated and extended the Academy. As a result, he contributed tremendously to 2-1180)
He was a great thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty, representative of the Huxiang School. As a governmental official, he was honest and upright, with outstanding political performance. Zhang Shi devoted his life to education and learning. His eight-year-long teaching in the Academy established the scale of the Huxiang School, and he contributed substantially to the prosperity of Yuelu Academy.
History
Yuelu Academy, surviving the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning in 1903 Finally named Hunan University in 1926. The Academy has witnessed a history of more than one thousand years without a break, so it is called a “one-thousand-year-old academy”. The historical transformation from Yuelu Academy to Hunan University is a dramatic development of China’s higher education, which mirrors the changes of China’s education system.