The specialties of academies obviously distinguish themselves from official and private institutes of education, having specific and relatively independent educational goals, providing good material conditions for academic research and shaping liberal atmosphere for scholars. In the Southern Song Dynasty, all these strengths made the academies the base of the research and circulation of Neo-Confucianism-the advanced learning of the Song Dynasty. The Yuelu Academy has been the capital of Huxiang culture ever since the Song Dynasty. The restored Yuelu Academy provides an excellent platform, exploiting its own advantaged status and solid academic achievement to assist Hunan University, and the most typical case is how the Yuelu Academy offers strong support for the cultural quality education of Hunan University.