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Furong Academy is located on the campus of Furongshan Primary School, No. 236, Furongshan, Qingdao. It was originally the Quansheng Temple in Furongshan. Now there are only two buildings, the main hall and the east wing of the original Quansheng Temple. The two buildings have an L-shaped layout, with a total construction area of about 160 square meters. The height of the main hall is 6 meters, the height of the east wing is 5.1 meters, and the roof is pitched. The architectural shape is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, which is very similar to the Qingdao courtyard buildings of the same period. Its appearance has the decorative style of traditional Chinese architecture, such as column base , finials and roof folding, etc., but some of the old ones have been preserved. The door and window structures are still in the style left over from the Germans. These are the calligraphy and shadow puppet classrooms and warehouses that are now Furongshan Primary School.
Furong Mountain, formerly known as "Xiaobeishan", is located on the west bank of the estuary of Haibo River, with an altitude of 33 meters. It is now surrounded by Changchun Road, Huayang Road, Shenyang Road and Inner Mongolia Road, with an area of about 0.2 square kilometers. After the German army invaded Qingdao in 1897, in order to manage Qingdao, the German army built the famous "Coast Fortress" fort on the north side of "Xiaobeishan", which is what we now call "Fort No. 5".
According to legend, after the Japanese-German War, a Taoist priest named Zeng Mingben, with permission from the Japanese army, built a Taoist temple on the top of the "No. 5 Fort", named it "Quansheng Temple", and took charge of it himself. He also found someone to plant a row of hibiscus trees in front of the temple. Later, the mountains were covered with hibiscus trees. Whenever summer comes, hibiscus flowers bloom and the mountains and fields are crimson, so it is called "Furong Mountain".
There is no evidence as to when the Quansheng Temple in Furong Mountain was built. However, it is inferred from its architectural style, craftsmanship characteristics and folklore that it should have been built between 1910 and 1930. A document found in the Qingdao Municipal Archives records that in 1944, the eminent monk Zeng Mingben applied to the Forest Service for land around the Quansheng Temple on Furong Mountain for planting. According to historical records, Zeng Mingben also purchased the temple property of Fushan Chaoyang Temple. After renovation and additions, it was renamed "Quansheng Temple".
In 1954, the former Taitung District Education Bureau changed "Quanshengguan" into Furongshan Elementary School. After many years of demolition and construction, the mountain gate, west wing, bell and drum towers of the original Furongshan Quansheng Temple were all demolished. By the 1980s, only two buildings, the main hall and the east wing, were left in the once-popular Furongshan Quansheng Temple. Since then, several principals of Furongshan Primary School have also tried their best to protect it. They all used this place as a special teaching classroom and named it "Furong School", so that this Qingdao characteristic building that has gone through hundreds of years of vicissitudes still has some traces. Recently, Furongshan Primary School invited professional teams from the Shibei District Folk Culturalists Association and Shandong Jianzhu University and Qingdao University of Science and Technology to conduct a preliminary survey and investigation of Furong Academy, preparing to restore it in accordance with scientific and professional principles.
Furong Academy is a historical building with Qingdao characteristics. It is one of the few old buildings in Qingdao that is currently preserved on campus. Every detail demonstrates the exquisite craftsmanship of a historical period.
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