TheStarCityChangsha星城长沙讲解.pptx

The Star City ---Changsha;The?Star?City-Changsha? ?Situated?in?the?river?valley?along?the?lower?part?of?Xiang?River,?Changsha?is?the?capital?city?of?Hunan?province.?The?recorded?history?of?Changsha?can? be?traced?back?3000?years.? ;The Star City ---Changsha; ;Yuelu Academy as is known to all that Yuelu Academy is one of the four most prestigious academies over the last 1000 years in China.It has been a famous institution of higher learning as well as a centre of academic activities and cultures since it was formally set up in the ninth year of the Kai Bao Reign of the Northern Song Dynasty (976). Yuelu Academy, surviving the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning in 1903, and Hunan Normal College, Hunan Public Polytechnic School in succession, and was finally named Hunan University in 1926. The Academy has witnessed a history of more than one thousand years without a break, so it is called a “one-thousand-year-old academy”.Well,you may see the couplet hanging on the two sides of the doorway .It reads “The Kingdom of Chu, the unique home of talents; the Academy of Yuelu, the very cradle of all”(惟楚有材，于斯为盛), a quotation which acknowledges the greatness of Yuelu Academy, and points to the historical fact that Yuelu Academy has been considered by many the cradle of the great people of Hunan province. ;Lushan Temple ;Yunlu Palace;Qingfeng Gorge lies in the low area between Yuelu Academy and Lushan Temple.It holds Aiwan Pavilion, one of four famous pavilion in ancient China, the Sheli Tower, and the tombs of Huang Xing .;Aiwan Pavilion Aiwan Pavilion lies in Qingfeng Gorge and was built in A.D.1792. Its original name Red Leaf Pavilion and later according to the poem written by Du Mu, it was changed to Aiwan Pavilion.Many of us are very familiar with the poem ,of which the most famous verse is Stop the car and watch the maple leaves until late, the leaves covered by frost are more red than the flowers in February.(停车坐爱