Jixia Academy

Jixia Academy, also known as Jixia School, was a government-run institution of higher learning in Tian Qi during the Warring States Period and was founded in Tianwu, Duke Huan of Qi. It is located near Jimen in Linzi, the capital of Qi State (now Zibo City, Shandong Province). "Ji" is the name of a city gate in Linzi City (now Zibo City, Shandong Province), the capital of Qi State. "Jixia" is near the Jimen in Linzi City, the capital of Qi, where the monarch of Qi State set up a school. Therefore, because the school is located near Jimen, it is named "Jixia School" (this is the same as the name of "Hongdumen School" in the Eastern Han Dynasty). Jixia Academy is the first institution of higher learning in the world that is officially run and privately run. This rare and spectacular "a hundred schools of thought contending" in the history of Chinese academic thought was centered on the Jixia Academy of the State of Qi, and the official school was the study of Huang and Lao. As the center of the academic contention of a hundred schools of thought at that time, it effectively contributed to the formation of the world's academic contention.