梅庵, Cultural monument at Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Mei An is a single-storey brick-and-concrete building of 204 square metres in the northwest corner of Southeast University's campus, north of the Six Dynasties Pine. Rebuilt in 1933 with an internal-corridor layout, it replaced the 1916 pine-wood thatched cottage. Liu Yizheng wrote its plaque, and it now houses the university's School of Arts.

The cottage was built in 1916 to honor the memory of an influential educator and calligrapher from Nanjing Higher Normal School. Between 1921 and 1923, it became a gathering place for an important youth political movement, marking a significant chapter in the building's past.

The name Mei'an was the sobriquet of Li Ruiqing, the late-Qing scholar and calligrapher who headed the Liangjiang Normal School. Wang Yanqing taught guqin here at Nanjing Higher Normal School and revised the Longyin Guan Qinpu, founding the Mei'an qin school. In 1990 Zhang Daoyi set up the Southeast University Chinese Folk Art Reference Collection in the building, displaying thousands of folk craft objects from across China.

Mei'an stands at No. 2 Sipailou, in the northwest corner of the Southeast University campus, north of the Six Dynasties Pine. It now houses the university's School of Arts, so access follows campus and school opening arrangements rather than a separate ticket. Look for the plaque inscribed by Liu Yizheng.

The guqin master Wang Yanqing taught at Mei An and revised the Longyin Guan Qinpu there, founding the Mei'an qin school. In 1990 Zhang Daoyi installed the Southeast University Chinese Folk Art Collection in the building, displaying thousands of folk craft objects from across China.