Dacheng Hall of Yuelu Academy, a thousand-year-old university, was overwhelmed by ancient trees, causing one death and two injuries.

Dacheng Hall of Yuelu Academy, a thousand-year-old university, was overwhelmed by ancient trees, causing one death and two injuries.

18 At about 14: 50, an ancient tree of Yuelu Academy, a Millennium institution located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City, Hunan Province, suddenly broke, and the huge tree fell on the Dacheng Hall of the Confucian Temple, causing about half of the buildings in Dacheng Hall to collapse, causing three people to be crushed on the spot. 1 female tourists died after being rescued, and 1 tourists and 1 staff were injured, but none of them were life-threatening.

18, heavy rain in Changsha, lasting more than 10 hour. Reporter 18 saw at the scene in the evening that it was still raining. Overwhelming Dacheng Hall is a maple tree about 200 years old, with lush foliage and a trunk diameter of about 1 m. From the appearance, the tree is growing well, but the root is broken and the central part is rotten. The damaged Dacheng Hall is an important building in the Confucian Temple of Yuelu Academy. The eaves and houses in the northern half were seriously damaged and almost completely crushed by the fallen trunk.

Yuelu Academy complex was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is one of the "Four Great Academies" in ancient China. In the past 1000 years, it has been destroyed and rebuilt many times, and it is a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Liu Su, a professor at the School of Architecture of Hunan University, told reporters that the damaged Dacheng Hall was not an ancient building in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Yuelu Academy was bombed by the Japanese army, and many ancient buildings such as Dacheng Hall were destroyed. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Dacheng Hall was rebuilt, but the national strength was difficult at that time, the building quality was not high, and the materials used were also very general.

Liu Su said: "As the main structure of Dacheng Hall in Yuelu Academy has been damaged, the whole Dacheng Hall will be demolished in the future and repaired according to the original structure and style. It is imperative to clean up the collapsed buildings and conduct all-round surveying and mapping of Dacheng Hall. "

/kloc-The roof of Dacheng Hall of Yuelu Academy, which was crushed by ancient trees, was photographed in October and August. On the afternoon of the same day, an ancient tree in Yuelu Academy in Changsha fell on the Dacheng Hall, a building in the courtyard, causing part of the hall to collapse, causing one death and two injuries. The deceased was a tourist.