1919 In June, Chen Wangdao returned to the motherland from Japan in the upsurge of the May 4th Movement. In September, he began to teach at Zhejiang First Normal University in Hangzhou.
At that time, Xia Mianzun, Liu Dabai, licijiu and Chen Wangdao were Chinese teachers together. They are called "Four donkey kong" because they actively advocate new morality, new ideas and new culture. In addition, Shen Junru, Lu Xun, Ma Xulun, Shen He (Qian Xuesen's father) also taught here.
With the support of progressive and enlightened President Jing Hengyi, Chen Wangdao and other progressive teachers took part in the vigorous anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movement. Chen Wangdao has made bold reforms in the field of Chinese teaching, advocating vernacular Chinese, using new punctuation marks, teaching phonetic symbols, and introducing Diary of a Madman just published by New Youth as a teaching material.
Introduction to Xia Mianzun:
Formerly known as Zhu Xia, the word is soft. 1886 was born in Shangyu County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. 15 years old, a scholar in Shaoxing prefecture, and then went to Shaoxing prefecture to study. 1904 went to Hongwen College in Japan and Tokyo Polytechnic School to study abroad. Later, due to economic reasons, he returned to China early and worked in Hangzhou and Zhejiang Normal School. Pan Tianshou and Feng Zikai are both his favorite students.
19 13, Zhejiang two-level normal school was changed to Zhejiang No.1 normal school, and Xia Mianzun was appointed as a Chinese teacher. Later, he joined Nanshe, and actively advocated the abolition of reading classics, building a car behind closed doors, respecting Confucius and worshiping the past, and increasing new world knowledge textbooks.
After the May 4th Movement, he and President Jing Hengyi supported the patriotic struggle of students in various schools in Hangzhou, co-edited the publication "Education Tide" of Zhejiang Education Association with Shen Zhongjiu and others, and were expelled from school in the same year. Later, he was hired by the First Normal School of Hunan Province to teach in Changsha. 1922 returned to his hometown, raised funds with others to open a chunhui middle school in Baima Lake, and hired Zhu Ziqing, Wang and other celebrities in the cultural and educational circles to teach.
Xia Mianzun named his simple residence Pingwu, and the doors of the book were connected: "Qingshan is the household; In view of the discrimination of the die-hards against the education reform at that time, he wrote an essay "Winter in Baima Lake" and published it on the poster paper. White Horse Lake in eastern Zhejiang is famous for this, and celebrities such as Ye Shengtao and Chen Wangdao also came to give speeches.