Fúgōu

Fugou is a county town on the plains of eastern Henan, remembered for an academy founded by the scholar Cheng Hao while he served as magistrate here in 1075. Students came from places as distant as Fujian and Shaanxi to study with him. In 1546 the academy was rebuilt and named Mingdao, after Cheng's honorific title. It was restored again in the eighteenth century, when it acquired the name Dacheng Academy, preserving the association between the town and its celebrated teacher.