He is a creator of modern education in China
He was the first person in the Chinese Olympic Games
He is our protagonist today, Zhang Boling, the founder of Nankai University
April 5, 1876
Zhang Boling was born in a declining Scholarly Mendi, and his father was a xiucai.
When he was young, because his family was poor, he had no way to enter the academy to study, so he had to study under the same clan.
It's been 10 years here.
From the age of 6 to 15, he studied hard in the cold window, allowing him to enter the Tianjin Beiyang Marine Teachers' School with excellent results to study navigation.
He was the best student in his class in sailing and driving skills, topping every exam.
After graduation, he came to the Beiyang Marine Division for internship.
That year, in 1894, less than a year later, the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle broke out, and the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed.
At the age of 21, he came to Weihaiwei and on the first day lowered the sun flag of Little Japan and raised the Yellow Dragon Flag of the Qing Dynasty.
The next day, the Yellow Dragon Flag was lowered and the British Rice Flag was raised.
That kind of mood, indescribable, sad and helpless, full of righteous indignation
At that moment, he realized that there was no hope of serving the country from the military, and the way to self-improvement lay in a strong country, and the road to a strong country lay in education.
Zhang Boling regarded education to save the country as his lifelong belief.
Many people have heard Premier Zhou's saying - reading for the rise of China. It was the idea he founded Nankai Middle School.
He never cared about the hardships of running a school, and only hoped that he could see the rise of China in his lifetime.
At the age of 27, he came to that country and was deeply inspired by the importance the enemy attached to education, the scale and method of education.
After returning to China, he changed his private school into a middle school, ended his status as a private school master, and walked on the path of a great educator.
The school does not have a good address, it chooses the lowest-lying place, no matter how difficult it is to run the school, it cannot stop him, this low-lying place is called "Nankai" in the folk.
From the age of 31 to the age of 41, he constantly thought about his own path during the decade, can ordinary education really save the country? At the age of 41, he came to Columbia University, on the other side of the ocean, where he studied education.
Ordinary education is the initial stage of national education, and higher education is the foundation of national development.
In 1919, he returned to China after completing his studies and began to build Nankai University. Another physicist, Rao Yutai, was invited to create the pinnacle generation of Chinese physics.
(Rao Yutai is Wu Dayu's teacher, And Wu Dayu is Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning's teacher)
Nankai University in that period can be described as the stars shining, I am a Nankai native, but also became a proud name.
Nankai alumni will not mention it here, interested partners can search for themselves.
You think that's the end of it, Orfkos
After the founding of Nankai University, he still struggled in his own educational career, Nankai Girls' High School (1923), Nankai Primary School (1928), Nankai Economic Research Institute (1927), Nankai Institute of Applied Chemistry (1932), Chongqing Nankai Middle School (1936)
In 1937, Nankai University was bombed into ruins, and he went from east to west to move the school to Changsha and Kunming. Combined with Peking University and Tsinghua University - "Southwest United University"
Of course, Zhang Boling was founded with his good friend Nankai University, who is the man behind Zhang Boling? You can leave a message below, we will bring you the man behind Zhang Boling in the next program.