It will be prosperous in the future.

This is a couplet in front of Yuelu Academy in Changsha, Hunan, one of the four major academies in China in the Song Dynasty. "Wei" and "Yu" here are both modal particles, indicating that Chu and local talents come forth in large numbers, with the largest number here.

Hunan, with its profound cultural heritage, is one of the major humanities provinces in China. Yuelu Academy, located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City, Hunan Province, is the crown of the four ancient Chinese academies. Founded in Song Taizu Kaibao nine years (AD 976). In the eighth year of Xiangfu (A.D. 10 15), Song Zhenzong summoned Shan Shizhou and presented the book Yuelu Academy. After the Song Dynasty moved south, the Academy was rebuilt in the first year of Shaoxing, Hunan (A.D. 1 165). During the lecture period of famous Neo-Confucianism masters Zhu and Zhang Qian in the Song Dynasty, Yuelu Academy reached its peak, with 65,438+10,000 students. At that time, there was a folk song "300 Taoist priests and 1000 disciples in the academy". He also called the Academy "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Thought" and called it the place where Confucius gave lectures at home. In the second year of Gongdi Deyou (AD 1276), Yuan destroyed Ali Hague Academy, and in the twenty-third year (AD 1286), Liu Bida, a county school, rebuilt it. Since then, after several military disasters and many repairs, the academy has been greatly revived during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1662- 1720). Kangxi gave the Academy the title of "Learning to Reach Nature", and Qianlong (A.D. 1736- 1795) also gave the book the plaque of "The Road to the South". In the 29th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1903), it was changed to an institution of higher learning, and later to a teachers' college. 19 18, Hunan polytechnic college moved here. 1926, technical college, business college and school of politics and law merged and changed to Hunan University. The existing buildings are Qing Dynasty buildings, and 198 1- 1987 was restored by stages. The four characters "Loyalty and Filial Piety Festival" on the left and right walls of the front hall of the Academy were inscribed by Zhu.

Yuelu Academy, with its thousand-year history, full of flowers, endless string songs and well-run schools, is known as the "Millennium Academy". 1956, Hunan provincial people's government listed it as a key cultural relics protection unit in Hunan province, and on June 65438+1October 65438+March 3, China people * * * and China the State Council explicitly announced Yuelu Academy as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

In order to meet the needs of the times, Yuelu Academy was renamed Hunan College on 1903, Hunan Teachers College on 19 12, Hunan Institute of Technology on 19 17 and Hunan University on 1926. Therefore, although Gu Yue Road Academy is a national key cultural relic protection unit and presented to the world with the overall cultural relic image of ancient academies, it has always been an important part of the campus of Hunan University, which has been repaired, maintained and managed by Hunan University all the year round.