About this place
Xuehai Academy, formerly known as Wenhai Academy, has now become the Gao family ancestral hall. The ancestral hall is a traditional Chinese family gathering place for discussion. The Chinese family concept is still very strong today, and the ancestral hall plays a very important role. The front hall is the lecture hall in the past, the back hall is the sacrificial hall, and the left and right wing rooms are the school buildings. Academy education is an important part of traditional Chinese education and the predecessor of today's school education. It has the functions of teaching, worship, and residence. Both students and teachers live in the academy. The teaching content focuses on the cultivation of personality rather than just the teaching of specialized knowledge, which is very different from the modern fine-grained education.