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Yenching university is the predecessor of which university?
Yenching university is now called Peking University.

Yenching university was founded in 2009 19 19. It was a university jointly founded by four Christian churches in the United States and Britain in the early 20th century. It is also one of the largest universities with the best quality and the most beautiful environment in modern China. Its founder, Si Tuleideng, has been the president and dean of Yanda University for a long time. He defined the motto of Yanda University as "freedom to serve through truth".

1928 In the spring, yenching university established the Harvard Yanjing Society in cooperation with Harvard University in the United States. By the 1930s, it had become one of the first-class universities in the world and enjoyed a high reputation at home and abroad.

Peking University absorbed most of yenching university's talents and moved to Yanyuan at the same time because of merging schools. He inherited yenching university's role in personnel and facilities (including libraries) to some extent, so he thought that Peking University could be called the successor of yenching university to some extent.

School appearance:

The east-west axis of yenching university takes Yuquan Mountain Pagoda as the opposite scene, and passes through the stone arch bridge and Hua Biao (taken from the site of Yuanmingyuan) from the alumni gate. On both sides of the square courtyard are the Mu Building and the Democratic Building, on the front is the Gongbei Building (administrative building) at the top of Xieshan Mountain, and on both sides are the religious building and the library. Continue eastward along the central axis until you reach the Siyi Pavilion in the unnamed lake, with Boya Tower and Linhuxuan by the lake.

The eastern part is bounded by the unnamed lake, which is divided into the northern male hospital and the southern female hospital. The men's college includes four male dormitories in Germany, Talent, Jun and Bei, as well as the Fahrenheit Gymnasium. Along a north-south axis, women's colleges are located in Yishouge, Nanbeige, Girls' Dormitory and Bowes Gymnasium.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-yenching university