Jingyi Academy

Jingyi Academy

Hangzhou Jingyi Academy was founded in 1685, when Zhao Shilin, then governor of Zhejiang Province, founded and presided over on the isolated mountain beside the West Lake. For hundreds of years, Jingyi academy, as an important cultural landscape of Hangzhou West Lake scenic area, is located on the isolated mountain between the inner and outer lakes of the West Lake.

At the beginning of its establishment, Jingyi academy played an active role in inheriting Chinese traditional culture and cultivating morality. Due to historical reasons, the functions of academies were once abolished. In 1998, Jingyi Academy was rebuilt according to the style of Qing academy, and its main functions were gradually restored in 2009. In the summer of 2017, Jingyi college ushered in an important opportunity for its development - Mr. Huang Gaocai, a famous domestic scholar, educator and master of Sinology, was appointed as the executive president of Jingyi college. As a result, hundreds of years of academy, a new life.

Brief introduction to the Academy

In 1999, it was rebuilt according to the architectural style of Qing academy. The main building consists of a front and back hall and a left and right hatchback, with a garden on the west side. The first entrance hall of the academy is entitled "yingyu Fenxin", and the second entrance hall is entitled "xiucui Minghu". In the hall, there are ancient scenic spots of Gushan, including autumn moon of Pinghu, Jixue of Gushan, eight sceneries of West Lake Palace of Qing emperor, etc., which form a long scroll of "cultural Gushan".

Zhao Shilin paid the most attention to the word "Jing" in his life. He named the academy "Jing Yi", which means "if you don't respect, your heart will be relaxed; if you don't respect, your body will be relaxed; if you don't respect, you will be attracted; if you don't respect, you will regret".

There was a story about Wang Mian learning painting in primary school textbooks. Wang Mian, a painter of the Yuan Dynasty, was famous for his ink plum. There is a stone tablet in the backyard of Jingyi academy, on which is engraved the picture of mume of Wang Mian. An old plum hanging upside down, sharpened with a knife and axe. This plum blossom stele is about a work of the late Qing Dynasty. It was rediscovered when Jingyi Academy was renovated in 2000.

Today, when we go to the lonely mountain, we can still see the five trees on the white wall

Lonely and warm characters: "a cloud on a lonely mountain" (taken before 1929).

Historical records

In 1685, Zhao Shilin, governor of Zhejiang Province, founded Jingyi Academy.

Zhao Shilin has a complex of academies. When he was a small magistrate of Rongcheng County in Hebei Province, he tried to set up a "Zhengxue academy". He has a belief: "to cultivate the people, we must first create scholars, and to create scholars, we must first understand reason." if the people have culture, they will have insight, and only with insight can they build a harmonious society. Because the most important word in his life is "Jing", he named the academy "Jing Yi", which means "if you don't respect, your heart will be relaxed; if you don't respect, your body will be relaxed; if you don't respect, your words will attract you; if you don't respect, you will regret" - such a clear and honest personality is close to strict moral self-discipline. At that time, scholars had a sense of mission. They called themselves "scholars". Scholars could be killed but not humiliated. Scholars who were close friends died, and scholars could not but be resolute.

Jingyi Academy was opened. It is located in an isolated mountain, adjacent to the tomb of Lin Hejing, Mei's wife and Hezi. Strictly speaking, Jingyi academy is more like the nature of a hundred pulpits. It holds meetings twice a month. On the first day of the junior high school, it gathers celebrities to talk about their hearts and minds, and on the tenth five year plan, it invites Confucian teachers to teach Confucian classics and Taoism. Zhao Shilin would also teach for the scholars in person. As a Jinshi in the third year of Kangxi, his education is not low. The famous "Taiwan aftercare" has only 500 words. The governor's speech was the most sensational, with the onlookers standing in the yard. Qingfengmingyue, daodewen, Gushan since a more elegant legend.

A year later, when Zhao Shilin left Zhejiang, Jingyi academy broke up and became the "Zhao Gong Temple" for Hangzhou people to commemorate him.

By the late Qing Dynasty, the origin of Zhao Gong temple was not clear in the folk memory. It was thought that Zhao Gong respected Zhao Gong Ming, the God of wealth, and it was simply transformed into a temple of God of wealth.

During the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yi, a Yunnan fellow of Zhao Shilin and a history of Zhejiang's Buzheng, ascended the mountain and ordered people to carve five characters on the outer wall of Zhao Gong temple. Today, when we get to the lonely mountain, we can still see the five lonely and warm words: "a cloud in the lonely mountain" on the white wall covered by the green trees.

Jingyi Academy in the early Qing Dynasty was already a temple fair of God of wealth in the Republic of China. It was in disrepair for a long time. In 1929, the West Lake Expo was held in Hangzhou, and the boundary of "a cloud in a lonely mountain" was requisitioned as the Museum of the West Lake Expo. Zhang Xiaolin, a rogue tycoon in Shanghai beach, has a good relationship with Zhang Jingjiang, governor of Zhejiang Province. When he came to visit the Western China International Fair, he was pleased to see that this is a temple of God of wealth. After the West China Expo, together with his two worshipping brothers Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng, they invested money to renovate the temple of God of wealth, which is called "Xiling Hall of God of wealth". When people say, "Xiling God of wealth hall is Shanghai people coax up."

I don't know when I started. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, I went to Xiling God of wealth hall to participate in the "God of wealth meeting", which became a leisure activity for businessmen in Hangzhou. The so-called "God of wealth meeting" is actually a gathering and friendship activity in the industry, which is a rare and pleasant time for businessmen. Not all industries have such gatherings. Most of the people who attend the meeting are in the silk industry and the silk weaving industry. The brother industry of silk weaving industry, pigment industry, also known as dyeing workshop in the traditional sense, took baopu Taoist temple in Geling as the meeting place - Gehong, the alchemist, was their grandmaster.

Jingyi academy, the original site of Zhao Gong temple, was destroyed in the war of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Later generations did not know the true face of Zhao Gong temple, which was also related to the war.

In 1988, the house number here was "No.4, Houshan Road, Gushan", where more than ten families lived. One wall away, there is a teahouse. This courtyard has been changed many times. Before liberation, it was the temple of God of wealth. In 1929, it was also a zoo at the Western World Expo. After liberation, it was returned to a cultural unit and became the dormitory of Zhejiang Provincial Museum. Although it is a dilapidated courtyard, in the eyes of scholars, it is poetic everywhere. White walls and black tiles, carved wooden windows, and walls full of vines and mosses. Several banana books were planted in the yard. In 1994, the courtyard was about to move. Just before the scholars moved away, half a remnant tablet was dug out in the courtyard. The five words "Jingyi academy" were like a secret key. The wheel of destiny opened. Zhao Shilin 300 years ago and the scholars of the 20th century finally got through to each other. At that moment, surprise and relief condensed in the scholar's eyes. In 1998, Jingyi Academy was renamed. Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of landscape and cultural relics renovated it as a tourist site to "return the beautiful scenery of West Lake and spread spiritual civilization".

Address: Zhongshan Park

Longitude: 120.1432565

Latitude: 30.25276906

Tel: 0571-87179603

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