What was the predecessor of Zhejiang University? Thank you, everyone.
The predecessor of Zhejiang University, Qiushi College, is located in Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Daxue Road. In the 23rd year of Guangxu reign (1897), Qi Lin, the magistrate of Hangzhou, established a new school by using Puci Temple, which was the forerunner of establishing modern education in Hangzhou and the first university in Zhejiang. Fusaiji was built in Shaoxing in Southern Song Dynasty, rebuilt in Yuan Dynasty and destroyed in Ming Dynasty. Built in the 15th to 17th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1889 ~ 189 1), the temple is the largest and the highest in Brahma Temple in Dongcheng. Qiushi College, founded by Puci Temple, is the office space of the college, and there are two halls behind it, which are students' classrooms and dormitories. Campus covers a wide area, quiet in the middle of the noise and elegant environment. It is the first new institution of higher learning in Zhejiang Province, which has a certain position in the modern education history of China. The academy takes rejuvenating China, resisting aggression and striving for strength as its school-running policy, pays attention to practical learning and opposes the imperial examination. While teaching mathematics, science and culture, we also attach great importance to Chinese education, pay attention to cultivating students' sense of national self-improvement, and cultivate the first batch of new talents with scientific and cultural knowledge in Zhejiang, such as Shao Piaoping, Chen Duxiu and Xu Shoushang. The Academy was renamed many times. In the 27th year of Guangxu (190 1), it was renamed as "Zhejiang Qiushi University Hall", in the following year, and in the 3rd year of the Republic of China (19 1903), it was renamed as "Zhejiang Higher Learning Hall". In the former site of the academy, only the original Puci Hall is left. There are four bays in the hall, with a total width of 22.15m and a total depth of18.4m.. It rests on the top of the mountain on one eaves, and its wings are tilted up. There are cornices and stone pillars in front of the shed, and lions and beads are carved on the two buckets and brackets in each bay, which is lifelike. With exquisite materials and carvings, the Auditorium is not only a representative ancient building in the late Qing Dynasty, but also a memorial place for modern education in China.