Huanggang Middle School in Hubei Province during the Period of Qihuang Middle School (1912-1926)

When the Wuchang Uprising broke out, the Huangzhoufu Middle School, like the schools in the province, was invisibly suspended, and in the first year of the Republic of China, it was changed to the Third District Qihuang Middle School.

After the establishment of the Republic of China, the prefectural and state structures were abolished, and the old ten prefectures and one state were divided into eleven school districts, and Huangzhoufu was the third school district. At that time, "the middle schools in each district used the old name of the original fushu academy, such as Wuchang Fuzhong changed to Spoon Ting Middle School, Hanyang Fuzhong changed to Qingchuan Middle School, Anlu Fu Middle School changed to Lantai Middle School, De'an Fu Middle School changed to Handong Middle School, but Huangzhou Fuzhong, instead of the old name of Hedong College, was renamed Qihuang Middle School, which was a special case. (Xia Yuanbiao, "Recent Hubei Education List")

Qihuang Middle School, located in Zhujia Lane, Rouge Mountain, Wuchang.

The site of Zhujia Lane in Wuchang was purchased by the former Huangzhoufu Normal School. In the third year of xuanun, Xia Shoukang was appointed as the supervisor of the Huangzhou Prefecture Normal School, and immediately gathered the gentlemen of the eight counties of Huangzhou to meet the methods of running the school. When tang hualong, chairman of the Hubei Consultative Bureau, proposed: Huangzhou as a subordinate, the five counties of the riverside, the turn to the other provinces, the three counties of the non-binjiang, to the province of the road fee is almost the same, it is advisable to buy a school site in the provincial wall, to hire famous teachers, to collect teaching materials, to collect books, to buy specimens, all are convenient, and can open the atmosphere, a rural scholar saino customs. At that time, the gentlemen who came to the meeting unanimously approved. Therefore, in February of that year, a house base of the abandoned Fubiao Camp was purchased, and the price was 1200 taels of silver, which was shared by the normal school and the gentlemen of the eight counties. Later, due to the Wuchang Uprising, the Huangzhoufu Normal School was suspended. In the first year, the Hubei Education Department stipulated that the eight subordinate departments of Huangzhou should be divided into the third district, and the district middle school should be handled, and Chen Hongji was appointed as the principal. Principal Chen then investigated the original case and ran the Third District Qihuang Middle School in Zhujia Lane, Wuchang.

The students of Qihuang Middle School all recruit the children of the former Huangzhou Prefecture's eight counties, the school system is four years, the spring business begins, every two years to recruit a class, about 50 people, the perennial maintenance of the school students two classes. A total of six classes of students are enrolled, namely: the first class of the first year of the People's Congress; Be a student who has not graduated from the original high school; The second class of the second year of the Republic of China, the third class of the fourth year of the Republic of China; The fourth class of the sixth year of the Republic of China (50 people); Fifth class of the eighth year of the Republic of China (58 students); The sixth class of the 10th year of the Republic of China (58 students). The courses offered are: self-cultivation, Chinese language, foreign language, history, address, mathematics, natural history, physics, chemistry, legal system, economics, books, professionals, music and music, gymnastics a total of fifteen courses. The school is very strictly managed. The roster of new students recruited, the results of the admissions examination and the primary school diploma of new students must be submitted to the Department of Education for review and filing. Usually, the academic year results of each student, as well as the annual roster of students who are suspended, resumed, transferred, and transferred, must be reported to the Department of Education for the record. The graduation examination is invigiled by the Department of Education, and the examination results must be submitted to the Ministry of Education for approval, and if one of the subjects fails, it cannot be graduated, and it is necessary to take the make-up examination at the time of the next graduation examination, and only after passing can it be graduated.

In the twelfth year of the Republic of China (1923), the provincial government increased the subsidy fee for the middle schools in each district, and then changed the name of the province to the sixth middle school of Hubei Province. The school system was changed to three years, and one class was recruited every year, with different numbers, and a total of three classes were recruited, that is, 57 students in the seventh class of the twelfth year; Class 8 of the 13th year (number unknown); In the ninth class of the fourteenth year, there were 78 students, and in the fifteenth year, 10 students of the ninth class were recruited, a total of 88 people.

In the autumn of the fifteenth year of the Republic of China (1926), the Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Wuhan, and the Hubei Provincial Department of Education reorganized the provincial schools at the same time. The provincial sixth middle school was ordered to be moved back to Huangzhou to handle it, the school building in Zhujia lane in Wuchang was changed to a provincial third primary school, and the former sixth middle school students were merged into the provincial first middle school to attend classes. At this point, the fifteen-year history of Huangzhoufu (district) level middle school overseas Chinese living in Wuchang was over.

The principals of Qihuang Middle School and Zhujiaxiang Period Six Middle Schools were:

Chen Hongyi (Dajiu) (First Year of the Republic of China - Three Years)

Tang Bingnan (10th Year of the Republic of China - 11th Year)

Shuai Peiyin (Wei Qi) (4th year of the Republic of China - 9th year)

Cai Guangqing (Qiancun) (12th year of the Republic of China - 13th year)

Wang Bailin (9th year of the Republic of China - 10 years)

Zhong Tunan (Pengcheng) (14th year of the Republic of China - 15th year)

The funds of Qihuang Middle School mainly rely on the donation of the five concubines in the eight counties of the former Huangzhou Capital, and the gentry scholars in the eight counties have organized a school board of directors in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China to supervise the school funds and assist the school affairs, with three directors per county, a total of 24 people, and Comrade Dong Biwu is one of the directors. The teachers of Qihuang Middle School were all hired by people with expertise, and later most of them graduated from Wuchang High School, Foreign Chinese Specialized School. After Founding Wuhan Middle School in 1920, Comrade Dong Biwu also taught part-time at Qihuang Middle School, taking advantage of the convenience of teaching Chinese language classes to propagate revolutionary ideas and develop party members among students.

Among the more famous students in this period were Wan Xiyu, Mei Gongbin, Chen Xueyu, Dong Yuhua, Huang Zhuo, Hu Feng, etc.

Wan Xiyan and Mei Gongbin were both Huangmei people, and in 1917 they entered the fourth class of Qihuang Middle School. They organized the "Renshe Society" at the school, read Marxist works and progressive books, and studied the problems of the Chinese revolution. After graduating in 1921, Wan Xiyan was admitted to Nanjing Southeast University, joined the Communist Party of China in 1923, and when the Kuomintang was in full swing, he served as an executive member of the Kuomintang Jiangdong Youth Committee and minister of youth, went to Guangzhou to attend the Second National Congress of the Kuomintang, was transferred to the propaganda director of the Wuhan Prefectural Committee of the CPC, and assisted Dong Biwu in running the "Chuguang Daily" and "Republic of China Daily", serving as the editor-in-chief. Later, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and the director of propaganda, and participated in the preparations for the Nanchang Uprising. In 1928, he also served as the secretary of the Gannan Special Committee, leading the peasant revolt in Dayu, Yudu, Xinfeng, Wan'an and other places, and was arrested and killed. Mei Gongbin was admitted to the Shanghai East Asia Fan Academy, became the vice president of the Shanghai Students' Federation in 1924, and participated in the formation of the Fujian People's Decentralization in 1933. Later, he took advantage of his position as a professor at China Public School, Jinan University, Sun Yat-sen University, and Dade College in Hong Kong to unite Li Jishen, Chen Mingshu, Jiang Guangding, Cai Tingkai and other upper-class patriotic democrats. After liberation, he served as a deputy to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and secretary general of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of

Chen Xuewei, a native of Huanggang and also a student of the fourth batch, joined Yun Daiying's "Mutual Aid Society" during his school days, and established the "Yellow Society" with Lin Yunan and other students from Han Huanggang in Wuchang Baobing Hall. In 1919, he participated in the "May Fourth Movement" in Wuhan and was a skeleton member of the student movement. After graduation, he joined the Communist Party of China, and under the cover of teaching, established a special branch of the Communist Party of China in Huanggang, recruited party members, and served as secretary of local committees. Leading the Huanggang peasant movement, he participated in the "Huilongshan Rebellion" and "Yangyingling Rebellion" in Huanggang during the Autumn Harvest Rebellion, and was killed by blind activists at the age of 29 because he did not agree with the left-leaning blind activist approach.

Dong Yuhua, Zi Baocun, Pu Chun ren. In 1924, he entered the eighth class of the provincial sixth middle school. Concerned about state affairs, active in thought, actively engaged in the student movement, during the "Five States" massacre, he organized the Shanghai Case Support Association and launched a demonstration by his classmates. In 1926, he was introduced by Dong Biwu to join the Communist Party. The Northern Expeditionary Army marched into Wuhan, and he was ordered to return to his hometown to engage in the agricultural movement and establish a peasant army. In 1933, he was admitted to Peking University of China, and in 1935, he served as the chairman of the anti-Japanese national salvation federation of students of the school, one of the leaders of the Beiping Student Federation, and led the "12 9" movement with Yao Yilin, Jiang Nanxiang and other organizations. In 1936, he became the president of the All-China Federation of Students. After the fall of Pingjin, he insisted on the armed struggle behind enemy lines in North China, launched the Great Rebellion in 22 counties in eastern Hebei, served as the commander of the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army in North China, and died of illness in Laishui in 1939.

Hu Feng, formerly known as Zhang Guangren and Pu Chunren, was admitted to Qihuang Middle School in 1921. During his time in school, he was exposed to the new cultural movement in full swing across the country, and was strongly attracted by new literature and began to try to write new poems. In 1923, together with his close friends Chen Fang, Fang Han (He Dinghua) and other organizations such as the "New SuChun Society", he published "New Suchun" and published his debut work in the inaugural issue. In the same year, he was transferred to the Attached Middle School of Nanjing Southeast University, and during the "Five States" Movement, he was one of the leaders of the Nanjing student movement. After entering the Beiping Preparatory Department, he changed to the English Department of Tsinghua University, and soon dropped out of school and returned to Suchun to join the revolutionary movement. In 1929, he went to Japan to study and participated in the left-wing cultural movement. In 1933, he returned to China and served as the propaganda director and executive secretary of the "Left Alliance", engaged in literary and art theory criticism, edited "Haiyan", and established a deep friendship with Lu Xun. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he founded large literary and art journals such as "July" and "Hope", published "July Poetry Series" and "July Literary Series", united a large number of literary youth, formed the famous "July Poetry School", became the most influential new literary theorist in the Kuomintang region, and was known as "China's Belinsky".

Chen Fang was an early organizer and leader of the Puchun Communist Party and later studied in the Soviet Union. In 1935, he accompanied the Long March of the Red Fourth Front, and in 1937, he was imprisoned and killed by the warlord Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang. He Dinghua later participated in the Great Revolution, and in 1929 went to Japan to study, and participated in the left-wing cultural movement with Hu Feng. He returned to China in 1934 and joined the Communist Party of China. After liberation, he served as secretary general of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and deputy secretary of the party committee of Wuhan University.

Huang Zhuo, character Yaoxian, Pu Chunren. In 1921, he entered the sixth class of Kai Huang Middle School. In 1924, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Wuchang University, and after graduation, he taught at Nanjing University. In addition to teaching, he studied linguistics under the guidance of his uncle Huang Kan. Later, he was a doctoral supervisor of traditional linguistics professor at Wuhan University. During his lifetime, he wrote many works, mainly including "JingHuang Translation Hui School", "Mao Shi Zheng Zhi Ping Discussion", "Su Chun Huang Clan Wencun" and so on.

In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China (1929), Shuai Peiyin, the former representative of the eight counties of Huangzhou Prefecture, submitted a letter to the Hubei Provincial Government, believing that the site of the Qihuang School Building in Zhujia Lane was the public property of the eight counties of Huangzhou, which belonged to the nature of the district and was not of a provincial nature, and requested it to be returned. The provincial government agreed to return the goods. However, the Department of Education has been delaying under the pretext that the three primary school buildings cannot be solved. It was not returned until twenty-three years later. Huangzhou Eight Counties Traveling Han Gentry Merchants used these school buildings to establish a private Qihuang Middle School, with fang Dazhi as the principal. In 1938, the Japanese attacked Wuhan, and the private Qihuang Middle School was suitable for Tuanfeng.