The Songyang Academy(Chinese:嵩阳书院；pinyin:sngyngshyun) is renowned as one of the " Four Well-known Academies in Song Dynasty" (960 – 1729 A.D.), together with the Suiyang Academy in Suizhou (also named “Yingtian Academy”), the Yuelu Adacemy in the Hunan Province and the Bailudong Adademy in Jiangxi Province. It is located at the south foot of the Songshan Mountain, 3 kilometers north of Dengfeng County. Songyang Academy was jointly dominated by Buddhism and Daoism at first, later by the Confucianism. First built in 484 A.D., it has a history of about 1, 000 years. Many emperors came here in a tour of inspection. It had been remedied and extended for several times in different dynasties, later developed into an academy of a large scale with an air of simplicity and elegance. General Cypresses of the Western Han Dynasty and the Great Tang Stele of the Tang Dynasty are the feature cultural relics of the Songyang Academy.

Do not miss Songyang Academy, a combination of the academy and the fantastic scenery.