Hehe Culture Research Institute of Taizhou University

It is a bounden duty for the colleges and universities in Taizhou to study, publicize and promote Hehe Culture. In 2017, the Hehe Culture Research Institute was established in Taizhou University. This is China's first substantive research institution focusing on Hehe Culture. It reflects the great importance that the Taizhou Municipal People's Government and Taizhou University have attached to the research on Hehe Culture.

Grown out of the Taizhou Humanities Research Institute founded in Taizhou Normal College in 1992, the Hehe Culture Research Institute has a tradition of studying Tiantai Mountains culture. It consists of the Center for Hehe Culture, the Center for Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, and the Center for the Tang Poetry Road, thus having a layout that takes Hehe Culture as the main focus, Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism as the basis, and the Tang Poetry Road as the unique form of cultural communication. The study of Hehe Culture includes research on the culture's formation, connotations, historical significance and contemporary value. The study of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism mainly focuses on Neo-Confucianism, Tiantai Buddhism and the South Sect of Daoism. The study of the Tang Poetry Road involves literature and art, history and geography, economy and trade, religious beliefs, folk customs and dialects, transportation and tourism along the Tang Poetry Road in east Zhejiang.

In 2017, the institute undertook the "Research on Tiantai Mountains Hehe Culture," a major research program as part of the Zhejiang Cultural Research Program (Phase II). In 2020, it concluded its research and published five related books: Index of Research on Tiantai Mountains Hehe Culture compiled by Yang Gongfa, An Introduction to Tiantai Mountains Hehe Culture by He Shanmeng and Chen Ruigang, A History of Tiantai Mountains Hehe Culture by Zhang Yan, Interregional Diffusion of Tiantai Mountains Hehe Culture by Qu Xiaoyu, Hao Jinguang and Sun Minghui, and The Contemporary Value of Tiantai Mountains Hehe Culture by Yang Gongfa and Wang Tingting. These books pioneered systematic research on Tiantai Mountains Hehe Culture. 

臺州學院和合文化研究院 

和合文化的研究、普及和推廣，是臺州本地高校義不容辭的責任。2017年，臺州學院成立和合文化研究院。這是國內第一個以和合文化為中心的實體性研究機構，體現了臺州市人民政府和臺州學院對和合文化研究的高度重視。

臺州學院和合文化研究院，前身為臺州師專成立于1992年的臺州人文研究室，已形成研究天臺山文化的優良傳統。臺州學院和合文化研究院下設和合文化研究所、儒釋道研究所、唐詩之路研究所，負責三個方向的學術研究，確立了“以和合文化為本質特征、以儒釋道文化為基礎、以唐詩之路為獨特傳播形態”的總體研究布局。和合文化研究包括對中國和合文化的形成、內涵、歷史地位及其當代價值的研究；儒釋道文化研究主要包括對以理學為主的儒家文化、以佛教天臺宗為主的佛教文化和以道教南宗為主的道教文化等的研究；唐詩之路研究包括浙東唐詩之路沿線的文學藝術、歷史地理、經濟貿易、宗教信仰、民俗方言、交通旅游等領域的研究。

臺州學院和合文化研究院于2017年承擔了浙江省文化工程（二期）的重大研究項目“天臺山和合文化研究”，2020年完成相關研究并出版《天臺山和合文化研究文獻索引》（楊供法編著）、《天臺山和合文化概論》（何善蒙、陳銳鋼著）、《天臺山和合文化史》（張燕著）、《天臺山和合文化的“跨域”傳播》（屈嘯宇、郝金廣、孫明輝著）以及《天臺山和合文化的當代價值研究》（楊供法、王廷婷著）等5部專著，這是國內第一套系統研究天臺山和合文化的學術叢書。