Culai Academy or Culai Academy of Classical Learning (徂徕书院 ''cúlái shūyuàn'') was built by the
Northern Song
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scholar
Shi Jie during the time of his mourning (1038–40). Beside the academy was the "Duyi-tang" (读易堂 ''dúyì-táng'', "Hall for Reading the Yi"), where Shi Jie,
Sun Fu
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Sun Fu was ...
, and Shi Jie's disciple Jiang Qian studied the
Zuo Zhuan to the
Spring and Autumn Annals
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and the
Book of Changes
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.
It has been classed as one of the Four Great
Academies
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of the Early Song.
The academy was located on the north side of
Mt Culai, currently
Tai'an
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City,
Shandong
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Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
province. The place is now called ''Shufang'' (書坊), meaning "library".
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