Zhang Boling (1876.4.5-19512.23), formerly known as Shouchun, later named Ling Bo, Tianjin native, China modern vocational educator, founder of private Nankai series schools. The earliest advocator of western drama and Olympic Games, known as "the first person in China Olympic Games". Zhang Boling graduated from Tianjin Beiyang Naval Academy in his early years, and received honorary doctorates from St. John's University in Shanghai and Columbia University in the United States. His teachers are American educators and philosophers Dewey and Thorndike.

In June of the 38th year of the Republic of China (1948), he served as the president of Nanjing National Government Examination Institute. /kloc-at the end of 0/0, Zhang Boling declined Chiang Kai-shek's request to go to Taiwan Province and stayed in the mainland.

With the lifelong belief of saving the country through education, Zhang Boling successively founded Nankai Middle School, Nankai University, Nankai Girls' Middle School, Nankai Primary School and Chongqing Nankai Middle School, and took over Shuguang Middle School in Zigong, Sichuan Province, forming a famous Nankai education system, cultivating a large number of talents for the country, including Zhou Enlai, and being known as "the creator of modern education in China".

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Guangxu twenty-three years (1897), served in the navy after graduation. After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, the agreement of imperialist robbers. The Qing court sent officials to Shandong to handle the transfer formalities, and Zhang Boling went with the ship. On the first day of the ship's arrival in Ahava, the Japanese Sun Flag was lowered and the China Huanglong Flag was raised. The next day, the Yellow Dragon Flag in China was lowered and the Mitzi Flag in Britain was raised.

Zhang Boling witnessed the reception and handover ceremony of the "Three Changes of the National Flag" and personally experienced the scene of humiliating the country, angry and awed. After returning from Ahava, he thought the navy was hopeless and decided to retire. Soon, he quit his job and returned to Tianjin to teach in Jiayuguan.

In July of the 23rd year of Guangxu (1898), Britain forcibly leased Ahava, and Zhang Boling sent officials from the Qing court to handle the handover procedures with the ship. He personally experienced the humiliating scene of "three changes in the national flag", deeply felt that "the road to self-improvement lies in education" and determined to "establish a new religion and educate new people". That year, he met Yan Xiu, who advocated new learning, and started the difficult road of running a school together.

In the 29th year of Guangxu reign (1903), China Eastern Airlines, Zhang Boling, witnessed the grand occasion after Meiji Restoration in Japan, and appreciated Japan's emphasis on education, school scale and educational methods, which was deeply inspired.

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