Tao Xingzhi and Zhang Zonglin were famous educators in the Republic of China. They are both teachers and students, colleagues and comrades-in-arms. Their lives are closely related, starting from the first meeting of Nanjing Normal University.

2. Zhang Zonglin's understanding of the essence of curriculum is broader. He pointed out that kindergarten curriculum participants, in a broad sense, were born in Kindergarten No.1 Middle School.