# Culai Academy

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'''Culai Academy''' or '''Culai Academy of Classical Learning'''  (徂徕书院 ''cúlái shūyuàn'') was built by the [Northern Song](/source/Northern_Song) scholar [Shi Jie](/source/Shi_Jie_(scholar))<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lyu |first1=Yuhua |title=The Classical Academy: Higher Education in Ancient China |date=8 August 2025 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-981-96-7257-8 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Classical_Academy/S3N4EQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Culai+Academy%22&pg=PA38&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref> 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](/source/Sun_Fu), and Shi Jie's disciple Jiang Qian studied the [Zuo Zhuan](/source/Zuo_Zhuan) to the [Spring and Autumn Annals](/source/Spring_and_Autumn_Annals) and the [Book of Changes](/source/I_Ching).

It has been classed as one of the Four Great [Academies](/source/Academies_(China)) of the Early Song.

The academy was located on the north side of [Mt Culai](/source/Mt_Culai), currently [Tai'an](/source/Tai'an) City, [Shandong](/source/Shandong) province. The place is now called ''Shufang'' (書坊), meaning "library".

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