Education is a national project.
Ten years of nurturing trees, a hundred years of educating people, good education so that China's next generation of thinking, physique are enhanced, when China suffered from war, there is a group of people, has been committed to education, for China's rejuvenation to cultivate talents.
Chiang Kai-shek came up with countless ways to take him away, but he was saved by Zhou Enlai.
Zhang Boling is known as the father of modern education in China, Zhang Boling experienced the entire period from the late Qing Dynasty to the new China, he witnessed the rise and fall of the late Qing army, mourning it.
Later, he dedicated his life to the cause of Education in China and pinned his patriotism on nankai students.
In 1949, when the War of Liberation was in full swing, Chiang Kai-shek set his sights on Zhang Boling.
He wrote many times, hoping that Zhang Boling would serve as the president of the Examination Institute of the National Government.
Zhang Boling repeatedly refused, but the other party finally stepped back and said that even if it was only a temporary substitute post, the National Government would seize the time to find someone else to take up.
Zhang Boling had no way to refuse, and could only temporarily assume his post, but he did not expect to be caught in Chiang Kai-shek's plan. Just after leaving Nankai, Zhang Boling received Chiang Kai-shek's dismissal from the post of principal of Nankai, in order to force Zhang Boling and Chiang Kai-shek to go to Taiwan together.
It is precisely because of this incident that the later old principal who single-handedly founded Nankai was rejected by Nankai School Qing in the second year.
On the day of the school celebration, it was drizzling, and when Zhang Boling picked up an umbrella and prepared to go out, Zhang Boling's third son stopped him: "When it rains, don't go, they don't welcome you to go." ”
Zhang Boling was stunned for a moment, slowly put down the umbrella, agreed to a sentence, although nothing was revealed on his face, it still made his family feel his loneliness.
Chiang Kai-shek even sent Chiang Ching-kuo to persuade Zhang Boling in order to take her away, and when Chiang Ching-kuo left, he left Zhang Boling a huge check and a plane, saying that as long as Zhang Boling was willing, he could leave for Taiwan at any time.
However, Zhang Boling still refused Chiang Ching-kuo's kindness, and not long ago, Zhang Boling received an anonymous letter with only one sentence: "The old classmate Feifei does not want the old principal to move."
It was this sentence that further strengthened Zhang Boling's idea of staying on the mainland.
Feifei is actually Zhou Enlai's pen name when he went to school in Nankai, and Zhang Boling knew that this was the students' sincere concern for themselves, and when Zhou Enlai received the news that "Zhang Boling did not go and hopes to return to the north", he was very happy.
Later, Zhang Boling and his wife went north and lived well under the care of the relevant departments in Beijing.
For New China, the president who founded Nankai University can be willing to contribute to the construction of New China, and the political significance of the representative is far-reaching and broader.
As the founder of Nankai University, Zhang Boling's road to founding the school is really arduous. In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Boling, as a Beiyang officer, personally experienced the handover ceremony of Liugong Island, the Japanese flag was lowered, the flag of the Great Qing State was raised, and the next day the flag of the Great Qing State fell and the British flag was raised.
He watched as the land of China became a British concession, the British army was on its toes, and the Qing army seemed to be a defeated general, and even the team could not walk. After seeing the soldiers of the late Qing Dynasty shrinking and cowering, Zhang Boling deeply felt that only through education and cultivating the physique of the Chinese the next generation, China would have a future.
After leaving Weihaiwei, Zhang Boling founded Nankai University, Nankai Middle School and Nankai Girls' Secondary School. It costs a lot of money to organize a school, and after taking all the money, Zhang Boling opened a "begging" road.
Zhang Boling traveled from the political and military circles and asked people to donate money everywhere.
When raising funds, Zhang Boling almost did not refuse, and even the money of the traitor Cao Rulin at that time was accepted, which was enough to see the urgency of his preparation of the school at that time.
Some people say that he has disregarded decency, but Zhang Boling said that flowers may as well be watered with dung. Nankai University is like a child who grew up eating a hundred meals, and was finally created under the single-minded preparation of Zhang Boling.
Zhang Boling does not have any requirements for funds, as long as it is money, it can help Nankai. When the school was founded, Zhang Boling's attitude was completely different from when he raised funds, and he had strict requirements for students, requiring them to be physically fit.
In Nankai at that time, students who were everywhere in physical training could be seen, and Zhang Boling also personally went to the battlefield, playing football and participating in competitions with the students to strengthen physical exercise.
He was determined to strengthen the physique of the next generation of students, and he knew deeply that it was useless to just read in Supporting China.
Not only that, in Nankai University, he has always taken patriotism as a basic requirement, in fact, these series of measures are his ambitions, Zhang Boling is gradually realizing his vision of education for the motherland.
"Are you Chinese?" "Do you love China?" "Would you like China to be good?"
In 1935, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the September 18 Incident, Zhang Boling's three questions made the teachers and students of Nankai University feel patriotic. The questions are simple, but they are thought-provoking.
China's hopes are in school, and the Japanese who invaded China certainly know the truth, so they disregarded international law and aimed their guns at Nankai University.
When the artillery fire of Rikou fell on the land of Nankai University, when decades of painstaking efforts were destroyed, Zhang Boling's heart was also blasted out of irreparable wounds.
At the same time, the news of Zhang Boling's son's death in battle also came back, and Zhang Boling seemed to have lost all his pillars for a while. He stood there, did not speak for a long time, and did not seem to be angry at all.
Later, he suddenly said, "Good death!" Good to die! I have long promised the kingdom with this son, today's affairs, in my own mind, ask for benevolence and benevolence, and mourn! ”
Zhang Boling knows that if the country wants to survive, talent is indispensable, which is also his original intention of founding Nankai, when the country rises and falls, everyone has the obligation to contribute to the country. His own son is not one of them, and from now on, he can only move forward.
Zhang Boling returned to Nankai, standing on the ruins, still with ambition, and once again made clear his anti-Japanese position. No matter how many Japanese artillery fire there are, no matter how many Japanese guns cannot be destroyed, they cannot be scattered!
Subsequently, the Southwest United University was established, and Nankai University, as one of the most important spines, added glory to China's educational cause.
Zhang Boling dedicated his life to Nankai and to the cause of education, but he was very clean, until his death, he only had a few pieces of ticket money, which was also his entire savings. But his spirit is so rich, until now, we will remember the old principal who led Nankai forward in the war.