Donglin Academy

Donglin Academy was built in the period of Huizong of Song Dynasty, and then repaired many times. "The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of hearing; family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, care about everything." we all know the couplet in this academy. Inside, the main buildings, such as stone archway, companion pool, Donglin jingshe, Lize hall, Yiyong hall, Yanju temple, Sangong temple, east west corridor, Laifu Zhai, Daonan temple, Donglin Baogong temple, all maintain the layout and historical style of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Donglin Academy

Donglin Academy was founded in 1111 A.D., the first year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was the place where Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi's younger brother and Yang Shi, a famous scholar, gave lectures for a long time. After the waste. In 1604, the 32nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Gu Xiancheng, a scholar of Donglin, revived the restoration and gathered here to give lectures. They advocated the spirit of "reading, lecturing and patriotism", which aroused the response of scholars all over the country and made a great reputation. Donglin Academy has become a gathering place of people and culture in Jiangnan area and a major public opinion Center for discussing state affairs.

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Donglin Academy, also known as Guishan academy, is located at 867 Jiefang East Road, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. In October 1956, it was announced by Jiangsu Provincial People's Committee as a provincial cultural relics protection unit, and in June 2006, it was selected as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Donglin Academy was founded in 1111, the first year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was the place where Yang Shi, a famous scholar, gave lectures for a long time.

In 1111, the first year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, Wuxi official Li Kui accompanied famous scholar Yang Shi to Baoan Temple in Nanmen, Wuxi. Yang Shi saw that it was near bodu harbor and Qingliu before. The ancient woods around it were quite similar to the lush Donglin temple on Lushan Mountain. It was an ideal place to study and teach knowledge, so he intended to give lectures here for a long time. After Li Kui knew what Yang Shi meant, he fully agreed with it, so he named it "Donglin", which lasted for 18 years (1111-1129). After his death, Yang Shi's students built a ancestral hall, Daonan ancestral hall, for him at the location of Donglin Academy in Wuxi County. Cheng Yi, a teacher who took Yang Shi's studies and returned to the south, said a word of praise to him: "I am going to the south!". Later, the Academy was abandoned due to disrepair. After Yang Shi left, Donglin Academy was gradually abandoned.

In 1350 A.D., a monk qiutan built Donglin nunnery on the original site, and Xueshe was turned into Donglin nunnery. One hundred years later, in the Ming Dynasty, Shao Bao (1460-1527, No. "Mr. Erquan") from Wuxi studied here when he was a child. After he became an official, he tried to repair Donglin Academy in its original site, but for various reasons, he did not realize it, so he was still a school.

In 1604, the 32nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Gu Xiancheng, a scholar of Donglin, restored it and gathered here to give lectures. They advocated the spirit of "reading, lecturing and patriotism", which aroused the response of scholars all over the country and made a great reputation. Gu Xiancheng's famous couplet "the sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading, family affairs and state affairs, everything in the world" is even more well-known. It has inspired many intellectuals and greatly promoted the development of China's traditional culture and thought. He was praised as "the first scholar in the world to speak of academies". Donglin Academy has become a gathering place of people and culture in Jiangnan area and a major public opinion Center for discussing state affairs. In 2002, it was fully restored, including stone archway, panchi, Donglin jingshe, Lize hall, Yiyong hall, Yanju temple, Daonan temple, etc.

geographical position

In the past 10 years, Wuxi has been renovating Donglin college, and has become the base of home education and traditional education. Donglin Academy is located in the east of Wuxi City, next to Donglin square (867 Jiefang East Road)

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Human history

It is said that Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, who were deposed from Liju in those years, successively organized Donglin Academy to give lectures. The appointment ceremony of Donglin Academy: one meeting every year, spring or autumn. Half a month to send a post to enlighten. The first small meeting of each month starts with the day of Zhongding in February and August, with three days in each month, except the first month, June, July and December when Qi is cold and hot. If you want to go, you don't have to go all over. Every time I can push one person, I will talk about the chapter of "four books". In addition, if there are questions, they will be asked, and if there are discussions, they will be discussed. Everyone in the meeting should be open-minded to listen. In addition to the lectures, they also ridiculed the government, judged the people, pointed out the shortcomings of the times, and tried to be new; they advocated that they should aim at the way of the world, practice, oppose empty discussion, and deviate from reality. As a result, some scholars and officials at that time all admired Ying he and heard the wind. They all took Donglin as their home. They could not afford to study at all. For a time, it was unprecedented. It became a large regional gathering of people and culture in the south of the Yangtze River and the main center of public opinion for discussing state affairs. Today, it has not only become a witness of history, but also a place for academic exchanges among members of the local museum of culture and history.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the famous people in Wuxi started to rebuild the Donglin Academy because it was in disrepair. Tang Wenzhi wrote an inscription, "the root of the theory of inventiveness", and briefly described the whole process of the establishment of the Academy, "I hope that the people of our country will respect the former emblem and keep their integrity in the future." The name of the sponsor is listed behind the monument. Tang Wenzhi, whose ancestral home is Taicang, is a master of Sinology. He has been running a school in Xidi for a long time and has a great reputation. The monument is now kept in Wuxi Donglin Academy.

There are stone tablet square, Yimen, Lize hall, tablet Pavilion, Daonan temple and other buildings in the courtyard. There is a famous couplet written by Gu Xiancheng: "the sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of hearing; family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, care about everything.".

Eternal famous couplet

"The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, all things concerned"

This couplet was written by Gu Xiancheng, leader of Donglin Party in Ming Dynasty (Ming Lian Tan Qu 275). Gu founded Donglin Academy in Wuxi, where he often commented on the government after giving lectures. Later, it was used to advocate "reading without forgetting to save the country", which is still of positive significance. The first couplet combines the sound of reading with the sound of wind and rain, which is both poetic and profound. The lower league has the ambition of governing the country and the world. Wind to rain, home to country, ear to heart, extremely neat, especially the use of reduplication, such as hearing the sound of books. The main buildings of Donglin Academy, such as shipaifang, panchi, Donglin jingshe, Lize hall, Yiyong hall, Yanju temple, Sangong temple, east-west corridor, Laifu Zhai, Xunhe, Xinjian Zhai, Xiaobian Zhai, zaidao cottage, Shiyu Zhai, Daonan temple, Donglin Baogong temple, all show the layout and style of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Gu Xiancheng once wrote a famous couplet with lofty ambition: "the sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the family and state affairs, the world affairs, all care". Later, it was widely read and became the common aspiration and motto of many scholars and people with lofty ideals. This couplet is hanging in Yiyong hall.

Related verses

Harmony (Ming Dynasty)

Wang Wenlian, on the east side of the Tin City on the Ronghu lake, used to be a teacher's lecture hall

Good nature has been heard to push Mencius, and the name of Taoism is the doctrine of the mean

Spring Jiangling horizontal sitting, cold pressure bridge from the snow

The site has long been in Wu, and now it has been revived

You Huishan's Poems (Qing Dynasty) Kang Youwei

Read less Ming learning plan and lean to Donglin

Gao Gu anti Chongjie, Qian Ren Zhen Qin Cen

To Mr. Jingyang

The theory of talent has declined, and the integrity of the profession is still Cui Wei

The death of Ming Dynasty is the crime of Donglin. He is the leader of the party for a scholar

Exhibitions and collections

Donglin students Exhibition

In November 1901, the Qing government issued an imperial edict to change the academies across the country into schools. In May 1902, Donglin Academy was transformed into Donglin Primary School of higher learning, which officially opened on October 1 of the same year. Tao yunzu was the general manager. Soon after, Tao Shifeng, the last head of Donglin Academy, succeeded him. After the name of the school changed, along the existing so far. Inspired by the spirit of studying, seeking truth and caring about state affairs, Donglin, an ancient school, has developed a large number of famous students and top-notch talents. For example, the proletarian revolutionist Qin bangxian, the famous sociologist and economist Chen Hansheng, the famous economist Xue Muqiao, the famous writer and scholar Qian Zhongshu, the famous Chinese music historian and national musician Yang Yinliu, the academician Ji Guobiao and Hou Fusheng of Chinese Academy of engineering, the American industrial intelligence expert Qian Tianwen, the economist Wang Yinsheng, the mathematician sun Keding and the metrologist Wang Shizhen , sports master Hui Jun, Ding Lingling and so on. They are outstanding in all walks of life and have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields, adding luster to the country, Wuxi and Donglin.

Yixing purple sand Craft Exhibition

Yixing Zisha has a long history, which began in the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the basis of careful observation and study of social phenomena and nature, the artists of successive dynasties absorbed the artistic characteristics of traditional Chinese paintings and traditional arts and crafts such as ancient pottery, adder, jade, Qin brick, Han tile, mirror grinding porcelain, thus designed and developed various shapes of Zisha teapots, and formed a unique nation The unique style and artistic characteristics of Yixing purple clay make Yixing a famous ceramic capital in addition to Jingdezhen.

In 2007, Donglin Academy and Yixing Fangyuan Zisha arts and Crafts Co., Ltd. jointly set up a Zisha art exhibition room and regularly invited Zisha senior arts and crafts artists

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