Geographical Distribution And The Reasons For The Academies Of Jiangxi In The Song Dynasty

Jiangxi is located in the southeast area of China. It is a very good placeand has a beautiful environment. In the history of the SongDynasty, especially in the filed of economic and culture of Jiangxi, Jiangxi isat the forefront in the nationwide. The Academy which was produced in theTang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty, had increased the color ofthe history of the ancient Jiangxi.The Academies of Jiangxi in the period of Tang and Five Dynasties hasbeen come out in front in the national. In the Song Dynasty, the developmentof Academy in Jiangxi was more quickly than any other places, not only in thenumber of the Academies, but also the scale, such as the White Deer CaveAcademy. At the initiative of Zhu Xi, the White Deer Cave Academy became amodel that all the other academies study from it. In the process ofdevelopment of the Jiangxi’s Academy, it’s geographic distribution has itsparticular characteristic when the number was growing. In the SongDynasty, the Academy could be found everywhere in the Jiangxi province, butthe number of Qian state is the least. Look of the whole of Jiangxi, theAcademy mainly distributed in the north area of Jiangxi, especiallythe Northeast and Hongzhou and Jizhou region. From the perspective ofcounties distribution, near the river’s county academy is far more thanother regions. Namely, the Song Dynasty Academy in Jiangxi Provincewas based on the river.The reasons that resulting in the distribution of the Song Jiangxi Academyis the geographical environment, political stability, economic development anda series of causes. Jiangxi has many rivers, and water transport inthe ancient China is one of the very important means of transportation. So theyresult the distribution of the Academy spread along the rivers. At the sametime, both the East and West of Jiangxi, there were manyacademies. Because Jiangxi is surrounded by mountains on three sides, plusthe internal river, there are many beautiful places around Jiangxi, which is suitable for the development of academies. Moreover, Jiangxi’s economy wasmore developed, and the northern economy is better than the southern. With alarge population, and near to the Southern Song’s political center, a largenumber of Confucian appeared, and the Northern Song Dynasty Royal familymoved to the south in Southern Song Dynasty, and so on, for a variety ofreasons lead to the Jiangxi Academy had its unique features inthe geographical distribution of the Song Dynasty.