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Yuelu Academy, Hunan, China #332267629
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Yuelu Academy is located on the Yuelu Hill on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River in Changsha, Hunan Province. Yuelu Academy, together with Henan Yingtian Academy, Jiangxi Bailu Cave Academy and Henan Songyang Academy, is known as the "four great academies" in ancient China. Yuelu Academy was founded in the 9th year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty, and held the "Zhu Zhang Hui Lecture", which promoted the development of Confucianism and ancient Chinese philosophy in the Song Dynasty.