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　　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 976A.D 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.

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　　Mount Yuelu at the foot of a mountain track, the Yuelu Academy, built in 976 ad, has been one thousand years of history. Zhu Xi, a Confucian scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, talked about it. The breeze gap is a secluded and beautiful gorge behind Yuelu Academy. A clear spring. West pool clear water, ten thousand trees, comely, beautiful. The famous love late Pavilion in the Qingfeng gorge in the pavilion, formerly known as love Feng ting. Around the maple hills, the scenery is wonderful. The famous poet Yuan Meilai of the Qing Dynasty ". According to Tang Du poem "parking Fenglin love to sit late red flowers in February" of the poem, the pavilion will be changed the name of love late pavilion.

　　Yuelu Academy is one of the four ancient academies in China. Its predecessor can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties (about 958 years), and the two Buddhist monks. Song Bao opened nine years (976), in full Tanzhou Zhu hole based on Monastic Education on Yuelu Academy was formally established. Subsequently, after the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, twenty-nine years Guangxu (1903) changed into a high school in Hunan, and have been changed to the Hunan higher normal school, Hunan Polytechnic School in 1926, officially named the Hunan University, after thousands of years, the incessant, so called "Millennium institution".

　　Since its inception, Yuelu Academy has been famous for its education and dissemination of academic culture. The Northern Song Dynasty emperor summoned long Zhou Shinshu mountain, by the book given by the name of the Academy was heard in the world, "Xiaoxiang Zhu Si" reputation. Zhang Chang, a bishop of the Southern Song Dynasty, lectured Zhu Xi twice. In the late Ming Dynasty, Ming Shizong Yuci "Jing Yizhen", Wang Yangming's and Donglin on the propagation and exchange in the Ming and Qing Dynasties famous patriotism education in Qing Dynasty, Wang Fuzhi, Kangxi and Qianlong respectively Yuci "school up days" and "road is the pulse" amount.

　　Yuelu Academy covers an area of 21000 square meters, most of the existing building is the main building there are relics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the first door, two door, hall, half of study, teaching room, Baiquan Xuan, Royal Library, Xiangshui school, Confucious'temple, divided into lectures, books, for worship of three parts, each part is connected to each other, together as a whole complete, to show the magnificent ancient architectural Chinese magnificent scene.

　　?? In addition to architectural heritage, Yuelu Academy is also to preserve a large number of cultural relics tablet is famous in the world, such as the Tang Dynasty carved "Lushan Temple Monument", selected works written by Song Zhenzong "Yuelu Academy", "Shi Bei Fang Cheng Zi Si Pro tablet", the Qing Dynasty Royal plaque "school up days", "road is the pulse", clear moment Zhu Xi "one honest monument", "Ouyang Zhenghuan and Wang Wenqing" Yuelu Academy solemn monument ", the school regulations of the monument" and so on.