Xingning Academy

Xingning Academy

Located in Xingmin middle school, Xingning City, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, Xingning school was built in the Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty. Xingning Academy was called Confucian temple in ancient times, and was renamed Confucius Temple after the Republic of China. It is a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province. Tang Xianzu once wrote the inscription of Zunjing Pavilion in Xingning County, Huizhou Prefecture. There are many ancient buildings rebuilt in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, such as lingxingmen, panchi, Dacheng hall, dongxiwei hall, Zunjing Pavilion, etc. In the Dacheng hall, there is a plaque written in Emperor Kangxi's handwriting "model of all ages".

On June 29, 1989, it was announced as the third batch of cultural relics protection units of Guangdong Province by the people's Government of Guangdong Province.

Historical evolution

In 1371, the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Liu Zhaofu, the county magistrate, founded the zhaochuang Academy in the southeast of the county. In the 18th year of Chenghua (1482), the imperial censor Xu Mao rebuilt the school in the east of Jiuling (now the site of Xingmin middle school). It was founded in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty and has always been the highest school in the area. In 1903, he Ziyuan and Xiao Huichang, the founders of modern education in China, the founding fathers of the 1911 Revolution, founded a new school. The school was transformed into Xingmin school (jixingmin middle school). Qiu Fengjia, a famous patriot, was the first principal and he Ziyuan was the first supervisor. In 1906, Xingning County Middle School (jixingning No.1 Middle School) was also located here. In 1925, when Jiang Zhongzheng and Zhou Enlai led the students of Huangpu Military Academy to the East, they set up a headquarters in the Academy.

Many ancient buildings rebuilt during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, such as Dacheng hall, Zunjing Pavilion, east-west veranda, panchi, Lingxing gate, etc., are still preserved in the Academy. The Dacheng hall covers an area of 600 square meters, and the plaque of "wanshishibiao" in the hall is written by Kangxi.

building structure

It has been more than 700 years since its construction (another record: Xingmin Academy was built earlier than the ancient city of Xingning built in the Ming Dynasty. It was destroyed in the war and rebuilt after the Ming Dynasty. When the Xianxian building was built in the 1980s and 1990s, when the foundation was opened in front of it, it was found that there was a blue brick pavement of the previous generation, which was more exquisite, and it was estimated to be the site of the early period). After reconstruction and expansion, the temple system in the late Qing Dynasty was as follows: Dacheng hall in the middle, Chongsheng Temple in the later and Zunjing Pavilion in the later. In the East are the Ming Lun hall and the Jiaoyu Daolu, and in the West are the Mochi and Wenfeng academies.

According to the records of Xingning county annals, the main hall of Dacheng hall was dedicated to Confucius, and 16 Confucius' second son and sages were worshipped on both sides. There were 133 people worshiping the sages and Confucians in the East and West. There are five dynasties before Confucius in the temple. The above-mentioned wooden owners were destroyed in 1927.

On both sides of the hall are the East and West verandas, the halberd gate in the south, the Minghuan temple on the left and the Xiangxian temple on the right. In front of the gate is panchi, and in front of it is Lingxing gate. There is a palace wall outside the gate, and outside the wall is Dachi (also known as xueqiantang). That is, Hu Xi recorded the spread of Xingning geographical geomancy in the "seven stars accompanied by the moon" of the "month". Although it is a bit feudal, it is not difficult for people to understand why Xingmin academy once had a prosperous literary style when people explained it by the geographical and geomantic omen at that time. In fact, it is the center of the city, with stars flying over the moon. In front of it, there is Wenfeng tower (Wenfeng tower), Dacheng hall.

Address: Xingmin middle school, Xingning, Meizhou

Longitude: 115.7316620511

Latitude: 24.1338227856

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