the site of former Lianghu Academy
The Nationalist Party of China Army Officer Academy Wuhan branch was founded at the place in 1927.
Zhang Zhidong set up an attached primary school of Lianghu Normal Institute at the
site of Lianghu Academy in 1906. Students took a group photo.
Lianghu Academy (Hubei and Hunan) was founded in Wuhan, capital of Hubei in April, 1890 by Zhang Zhidong. It was named because tea businessmen donated the money for the construction of the academy. The academy was opened to Hubei and Hunan students with 100 each province while 40 students from business families were recruited to repay the donation of tea businessmen.
Courses were Confucian studies, history, philosophy and literature, mathematics and economics were selective courses. The courses were taught monthly. Yang Shoujing, famous geographer and calligrapher, mathematician and translator Hua Hengfang as well as other well-known experts delivered lectures in the academy.
Zhang Zhidong adjusted courses in 1896 to change it to daily courses.
Huang Xin, leader of 1911 Revolution was from the academy.
Lianghu Academy was changed to Weiwen High School, or Lianghu Normal Institute.
