Portrait of Zhao Xi (Zhu Wanzhang, "Painting Lin New Language")
Author: Zhong Yongxin
In the late Qing Dynasty, The famous Confucian Zhao Xi was particularly committed to the cause of education and culture throughout his life, and successively presided over the Fengming Academy in Rongxian County, the Dongchuan Academy in Chongqing, the Chuannan Academy in Luzhou, the Literature House in Rongxian County, etc. The disciples he cultivated were full of talents, and they all had a certain promotion and influence on the development of Sichuan and even modern China.
It has left more imprints on the Chuannan Normal School. Chuannan Normal School, formerly known as Chuannan Academy, is located in the Zitong Road Primary School in Jiangyang District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, founded in the 27th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1901), under the impetus of the concept of "abolishing the imperial examination and revitalizing the school" in the Penghu Reform Law, Yin Huang Liao of Yongning Province, together with the Zhishi of Chuannan, raised funds to petition for the transformation of the academy into a school hall. In the autumn of the same year, Chuannan Academy was renamed Chuannan Jingwei Academy, which was the first school in Sichuan to change the academy into a school.
Shen Bingkun, who was then serving as the governor of Luzhou Prefecture, and Zhou Shanpei, who had gone to Japan to investigate the New Deal and returned to China, together with Gao Kai, who had resigned from Beijing and returned to his hometown, decided to hire Zhao Xi as the first supervisor (principal) of the newly established Chuannan Academy. When it is the study of the chase world, it cannot be confined to the corner, which is called horizontal. Vertical is warp, horizontal is weft. So it was named "Chuannan Jingwei School". Because the school is enlightened, the school is privately funded, less restricted by the government, and because there is a famous scholar Zhao Xi as the principal, many learned people come here to teach, and the young people in Kawauchi and neighboring provinces also respond.
In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu (1902), the Chuannan Jingwei School was reorganized into the Chuannan Normal School, and the main front of the school gate was inscribed by Zhao Xi, and the school gate was engraved with the Yang Lian: Hede Intellectual Body and Soldier; The people of heaven and earth are called Confucians. This school was shared by the four counties of Luzhou, Zizhou, Xuzhou and Yongning Prefecture under the jurisdiction of XiachuanNan Province at that time, and the students' examination and funding were from various counties, and it was the only normal school in southern Sichuan. In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903), the new school building in Shuijinggou was completed, and Zhao Xi wrote the article "Records of Chuannan Xuetang", which described the construction of the school building and the purpose of running the school, the full text is as follows:
In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, Shanhua Shenjun Bingquan luzhou was the time when Tianzi did not return to the west. Jun was anxious about the affairs of the country, so he consulted with the governor Zhongshu Gao Junkai to ask Yongning Dao to open the Chuannan Academy, and pushed Zhu and Zhou Junshan to take charge of it. The creation of the master has a course, the simplicity is not the law, this chinese canon, the law of the foreign country, the new will. Luo Junzhonghao, a native of Naiju Prefecture, built the building, used platinum five thousand odds, in the midst of severe winter and summer, worked hard, and completed the work in August.
alack! The people who have made this hall are looking forward to the people of southern Sichuan, the people who hold up the three virtues of the family, and the teachers who come to the teachers, and all the beings will have a deep understanding of this purpose. The world's major events, the creation of the warrior is in a township, dare to question the words to see the thousands of generations.
- Zhao Xiji (Bashu Book Society), pp. 1195-1196
After Zhao Xi, the principals were Wang Dexi, Zhu De( concurrently), Yun Daiying, and so on; before the school had a vested atmosphere, many young people with new ideas came to school, and the school organized a "transmission society" to instill the idea of democratic revolution, and some students later joined the "League Association" and became the backbone of the Xinhai Revolution. For example, Wu Yuzhang, Xiang Chu, Tao Shi, Yang Hansheng, Zeng Runbai, Dan Maoxin, Yang Zhaorong, Li Qinhe, etc., in addition to Huang Shuzhong (Fusheng), who participated in the assassination of the regent, and Chen Baoyong (Shuyun), who accompanied Peng Jiazhen to bomb the noble liangbi of the zongshe, were all students of the Chuannan Normal School. By the 1930s, Chuannan Normal School was moved to the former Yandao Office (now the address of the Party School of luzhou municipal party committee), and the old school building in Shuijinggou was converted into an affiliated primary school, and in 1957 it was moved to Yongfeng Bridge and renamed Luzhou Normal School.
(First draft in July 2017, revised in November 2017)
(Note: Shi Hai hook shen, which was published in Zigong Daily)
[Wentu 丨 Mr. Zhong Zi, self-proclaimed Puxi Sanren, the author's original name is Zhong Yongxin. He is a member of the editorial board of the Lili Sinology Network and the editor-in-chief of the Humanities Channel. 】