Orange Island is close to Hunan University, Yuelu Academy and Aiwan Pavilion.
Hunan University: Hunan University is located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City, Hunan Province. Yuelu Academy, which was founded in 976, enjoys the reputation of "a prestigious school for a thousand years, a prestigious school for a hundred years". The school is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, a national "21Project" and "985 Project" key construction university, a national "world-class university", and selected as a national "20 1 1 Plan" and "165438".
Yuelu Academy: Yuelu Academy is one of the four famous academies in the history of China. Located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain on the west bank of Xiangjiang River in Changsha, Hunan, a famous historical and cultural city in China. As one of the oldest universities in the world, its ancient traditional academy buildings are still intact. Every courtyard, every stone tablet, every brick and tile and every wind load shines with the humanistic spirit tempered by time. 1988, Yuelu Academy complex was approved by the State Council as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Yuelu Academy has experienced thousands of years, with endless string songs and endless learning pulse. In the ninth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 976), Zhu Dong, the secretariat of Tanzhou, founded Yuelu Academy with government donations on the basis of running schools by monks. In the eighth year of Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 10 15), Song Zhenzong summoned the Yuelu Mountain Chang Zhou style and presented the book "Yuelu Academy" with an imperial pen. [1] After the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and in the 29th year of Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1903), Yuelu Academy and Hunan Provincial University Hall were merged and restructured into Hunan institutions of higher learning, and the former site of the Academy was used. In the Republic of China 15 (A.D. 1926), Hunan University was officially named Hunan University, and the academy base has been expanded to this day.
1986 Hunan University announced that Yuelu Academy was restored and officially opened to the public.
In 2005, Hunan University officially resumed Yuelu Academy, which consists of China Institute of Philosophy, History Institute, China Institute of Thought and Culture, China Academy Research Center and China Soft Power Culture Research Center.
In 2009, Yuelu Academy has completed the construction from undergraduate, master and doctoral students to Post-Doctoral Research Center. It has officially become the entity school-running institution and scientific research base of Hunan University, and the Millennium School has been extended again, adding luster to the Millennium School.
Today's Yuelu Academy is not only the training and research base of talents in literature, history and philosophy of Hunan University, but also a tourist attraction in Hunan Province, and it is also the cultural window and business card of the whole city of Changsha.
Aiwan Pavilion: Aiwan Pavilion is located in the west bank of Xiangjiang River in Changsha City, Hunan Province, in the Qingfeng Canyon of Yuelu Mountain. It was built in the 57th year of Qingganlong (1792). It was originally named Hongye Pavilion by Luo Dian, the head of Yuelu Academy in Qing Dynasty, and later renamed Love Night Pavilion by Bi Yuan, Governor of Huguang, according to the poem "Stop to sit in the maple forest late, and the frost leaves are red in February".
Aiwan Pavilion covers an area of 50 square meters, with a side length of 6.23 meters, a pedestal height of 0.4 meters and a height of 12 meters. The inner column is painted with mahogany, and four outer eaves columns are made of a whole square granite. The pavilion has four eaves, a pointed treasure roof, four wings stretched out and covered with green glazed tiles. There is a horizontal plaque in the pavilion with the words "Qinyuanchun Changsha" inscribed by Mao Zedong, and the plaque "Love Evening Pavilion" in front of the pavilion is inscribed by Mao Zedong. There are seven poems written by Zhang Nanxuan and Qian Nanyuan on the stone in the pavilion. Love evening pavilion is simple and elegant. It sits west to east and is surrounded by mountains on three sides. On the whole, more pavilions and pavilions of the Qing Dynasty have been preserved.