Feng Yong University was founded by Feng Yong's personal investment in the 1920s, which was the only private university in Shenyang at that time. Speaking of Feng Yong running a university, there was a legend.
Feng Yong
Feng Yong, also spelled Zhenxiong, also spelled Tianduo, is a native of Haicheng County, Liaoning Province. Born in 1900, he is the eldest son of the Warlord Feng Delin. Feng Delin and Zhang Zuolin were born in the green forest. After the Xinhai Revolution, the northeast established the army and organized it into two divisions, the 27th and 28th, and Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin served as division commanders respectively. They have always been inseparable. The relationship is not good. After the failed restoration of Zhang Xun in 1917 (the sixth year of the Republic of China), Feng Delin, who had participated in the incident, was imprisoned by Duan Qirui in Beijing. When Feng was released and returned to Shenyang, Zhang Zuolin had soared, became the "King of the Northeast", and "ate" his 28th Division, and Feng only became a "Governor of the Three Tombs", guarding the Yongling, Fuling and Zhaoling of the Qing Imperial Family, and the resentment between the two families has since deepened.
As the eldest son of Feng Delin, Feng Yong naturally wanted to fight for Lao Tzu. He graduated from the Northeast Lecture Hall in his early years, and successively served as counselor of the Fengtian Aviation Department and counselor and director of the Central Aviation Office. He believed in nationalism, understood politics, was good at communication, and had a strong ability to propagate and agitate, and was a very active figure in the military and political circles of the Fengzhi Department. He not only had the power of the Northeast for the Zhang father and son, but also was not convinced by their founding of Northeastern University. At that time, the atmosphere of running universities in the northeast was growing, so he founded the university with private property, gave his own name, and appointed himself as the president to improve his social status and prestige.
Feng Yong University was founded in October 1927, when the Feng family donated 1.5 million yuan and raised a small amount of funds. The school site is located at the Glide Airport in the present-day Tiexi District, covering an area of about 1 square kilometer. The university had two main buildings, an auditorium, both red brick buildings; a stadium, an athletics field, an ice skating rink, a swimming pool, and a 400-meter track; an internship plant (including a power plant, a material strength test plant, an electrical test plant, and a mechanical test plant) and a physical and chemical laboratory; a library with a rich collection of books and film projection equipment; and a small airfield and an airplane that were unique in domestic universities at that time.
Feng Yong University
From the very beginning of its establishment, the school merged his original Daye Engineering School and set up three departments: university, middle school and primary school, enrolling 180 students. In 1929, the university department was changed to undergraduate (4-year system), the secondary school department to the preparatory department (3 years), and the elementary school department to the attached middle school (3 years). By the time of the September 18 incident, there were already engineering and mechanical departments and law and political science departments, with nearly 400 students. It was originally planned to add four departments of science and engineering, literature and law in the autumn of 1931, as well as more than ten departments of mathematics, chemistry, civil engineering, education, traditional Chinese studies, and law, to become a comprehensive university, but due to changes in the current situation, it was unsuccessful.
The teachers who worked at Feng Yong University were all carefully searched by Feng Yong himself, and people with knowledge and teaching experience hired by Feng Yong himself were heavily hired, such as Professor Mu Jiduo and Professor Pan Chengxiao, who taught advanced physics, all of whom studied in the United States, and also hired famous professors from Northeastern University to take part-time classes, with high teaching quality and better student performance. In cooperation with teaching, the university monthly magazine and the attached middle school monthly magazine are also held as a garden for teachers and students to study academics.
The school rules are strict and are compiled and printed into a book, and all teachers and students in the school have a handbook, which must be observed by the principal, the lower and the co-workers. Daily students should dress neatly, do not casually meet and leave the school, leave the school on Sundays should also return to school on time, not to mention casually enter and exit public literary and artistic venues, the school spirit is decent and simple. There is also a great emphasis on sports, with 1 hour of physical activity every day, and students also participate in military training. The school often holds various sports competitions and trains a group of outstanding athletes. In 1931, in the Northeast District Qualifiers of the North China Football Tournament, most of the high and middle level football and basketball players came from Feng Yong University, went to The Final in Beiping, and also won the championship of the intermediate basketball tournament.
In order to establish his personal prestige, Feng Yong also formulated a school song, the words of which are clouded:
Xing'an Lingnan Liaoshui East, Yingling Ruixiu Bell,
Feng Yong vowed to save the country, and the university turned the spring breeze.
Magnificent! Fearless spirit, doctrine mission heavy.
Qi runs through the sky and the sky, and the eight virtues and eight positive affairs are admired.
Equal education, expensive in appearance,
Remember to learn and practice, and save the country to work.
Rich and noble, fame and fortune for basil,
Save the lonely cold, blame Me Cao.
Feng Yong doctrine is bound to be wild, Comrade Feng Yong is angry,
The sun and the moon are high, and the university is golden and the horse is phoenix.
Doctrine shines brightly, and the country prospers the people and lai Xianhao.
In 1929, when the "Middle East Road Incident" broke out, Feng Yong led the student organization "Annihilation Of Russia Volunteer Army" to the front line, participating in the war readiness for more than a month, the students observed discipline, listened to the command, were enthusiastic, and were praised by border guards.
After the September 18 Incident in 1931, Feng Yong served as Chen Cheng's Lieutenant General Law Chief, was arrested by the Japanese army, escorted to Tokyo, and then escaped on bail by a friend and returned to Beiping via Hong Kong. At this time, many students of Feng Yong University fled to Beiping, and Feng Yong set up an office to shelter them, and a large number of patriotic young people formed anti-Japanese volunteers and death squads to participate in the battle. In 1932, during the "1.28" incident, Feng Yong led his students south to fight to defend Greater Shanghai. After the fall of Shanghai, Feng Yong returned to Beiping and placed students at Northeastern University, and some students joined the revolution.
Since then, Feng Yong University, which has lasted for five years, has been suspended. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Feng Yong served as the director of the Northeast Xingyuan Supervision Department presided over by Chen Cheng. On the eve of liberation, he went to Taiwan with Chen Cheng as the commander of the Kaohsiung Fortress Lieutenant General, and died of illness in 1982.
Author: Guo Jun; Image: From the Internet