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Donglin Academy 东林书院Dōnglín Shūyuàn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Wuxi, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Wuxi
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Donglin Academy
A Confucian academy in central Wuxi founded in 1111, where the Song scholar Yang Shi taught, and revived in the early 1600s by Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, whose circle of scholar-officials criticised court politics and became known as the Donglin faction. Destroyed in 1626 and rebuilt under the Qing, it keeps a stone memorial archway, the Lize and Yiyong lecture halls and the Daonan Shrine to Yang Shi, with Gu's well-known couplet about caring for 'the affairs of family, state and world'.
How to get to Donglin Academy
In central Wuxi on Jiefang East Road, a short walk east of the Chong'an Temple quarter.
Nearby
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 苏州园林 40 km
Whole landscapes of rock, water and pavilion folded into a city block
Also within 20 km: Xiaolou Lane 小娄巷 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Qin Bangxian (Bo Gu) 秦邦宪旧居 (under 10 km), Chong'an Temple Quarter 崇安寺 (under 10 km), Nanchan Temple, Wuxi 南禅寺 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Xue Fucheng 薛福成故居 (under 10 km), Former Maoxin Flour Mill 茂新面粉厂旧址 (under 10 km).
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