Zhang Boling, a famous educator in China, founded Nankai University, Nankai Girls' Middle School and Nankai Primary School after 19 19. He attaches great importance to the education of students' manners and manners and sets an example.

Once, he found that a student's fingers were yellowed by smoke, so he seriously advised the student: "Smoking is harmful to health, you should give it up." Unexpectedly, the student was a little unconvinced and quipped, "Is it harmful for you to smoke?"

Zhang Boling smiled apologetically at the students' censure and immediately called on the workers to take away all Luzon cigarettes and destroy them in public. He also broke his beloved pipe that had been used for many years and sincerely said, "From then on, I quit smoking with all my classmates." Sure enough, he never smoked again after that.

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Attach importance to sports

Zhang Boling has made great efforts in students' physical exercise. When the intellectuals of the Qing Dynasty were still wearing robes and jackets, Zhang Boling asked Yan Guan students to do various physical exercises, such as high jump, long jump, kicking ball and running. At that time, there were no sports facilities, so he put two wooden chairs in the yard and used a long bamboo pole with a feather duster as the crossbar of the high jump, so that the students could tie long braids on their heads and lift the skirts of their robes to learn high jump. This was a refreshing and rare move at that time.

After the establishment of Nankai School, he even stressed: "Nankai students' physique must not be as weak as ordinary people now, but strong." Therefore, Nankai has been carrying out physical education class, and every grade has more than two hours of physical education class every week. Zhang Boling also sets an example, often playing football with students, and from time to time personally leading students to participate in competitions.

In the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), the North China football team, consisting of Nankai team and BAC ninh team, won the championship in Tianjin successively by defeating Britain, Russia and the world team, becoming the first football team in China history to win the championship by defeating foreigners.