嵩阳书院

明天就要上班了，下午陪家人去了“嵩阳书院”。书院里古碑古木楹联自不必说，儒教气息浓重，而且我拍了几张迎春的腊梅。

环境特别好，里面有历经三四千年的古树，听说很多文学大家都在此处任过教，如果细细品味认真听讲解能看好一阵。当然，有些讲解以看古树三个观音为由带进偏殿，最后宣传买所谓开光的什么东西之类就算了。

one of the top four imperial scholarly examination colleges, it is very well preserved. The garden areas have an air of tranquility and scholarly fragrance to it!

This is where Duke Zhou, Confucius's teacher taught, as well as, many other Chinese classical literature were written. For me, it was interesting to be standing in the same room and wandering on the grounds where the great minds were taught. However, the classical literatures have no meaning to me. Our guide, Charlie from China Odyssey tours, was extremely enthusiastic in sharing the history (he was a history teacher) but it went over my head. My parents, on the other hand, who were educated in Asia, knew what books Charlie was talking about and found the place interesting. If you've studied the classics, this may be a place of interest but for someone like me, with no education in the Chinese classical lit, I would have skipped this place.

This site should have been free. I paid 35 RMB to check this out and there really was nothing to see.The greatest part was a really old tree. Other than that, not worth the time or money.

这个景点有着很深厚的文化底蕴，所以在去这前最好先有所了解它的历史文化，要不然光是报着游玩的心情去的话，会很失望，所以要做好充分的准备。

嵩阳书院的元帅大柏树，中华第一柏，4500-5300岁了。还活着，好神!!

儒家思想影响了中国几千年,而孔子也是闻名中内外的著名儒家学者.来到 嵩阳书院感觉自己整个人都变得不一 样了.好像整个人也被儒雅之气所感染了.院内的风景很好,特别是那两颗古老的大树.还有院旁边的那条河.真的很喜欢这个地方.

河南之行的第三天，吃完早餐便奔赴嵩阳书院。一开始走错了路，拐进了通往嵩山的小道，却因路上的幽幽曲径，鸟语花香，令人为之神清气爽，游兴倍增。直到经小摊贩指点，走下了小道来到嵩阳书院面前，顿觉千年古书院的气息迎面而来，跨入大门门槛，眼见道路两旁青葱大树笔直耸立，淡粉桃花扑鼻而香。不似江南那些山水庭院，处处入画，角落皆景，也没有西安北京城墙鼓楼那般宏伟壮观气势。然而，人伫立于庭中，竟是深深地醉了。书中自有黄金屋，在我看来，嵩阳书院，便是了。

今天又去嵩阳书院，看到4500年树龄的千年古柏感觉比儿时的记忆似乎又大了许多，成树仙了！