Shigu Academy, Hengyang, Hunan 湖南衡阳石鼓书院
The Shigu Academy stands on Shigu Hill in Hengyang, Hunan, with water on three sides where the Zheng River flows into the Xiang. Scholars were already living and studying here in the Tang, and under the Song it became a famous academy, counted in some accounts among the four great academies of the Song. Most of the present buildings are reconstructions; from the hilltop you can watch the two rivers merge.
