1920 65438+On February 4th, the National Studies Museum was donated by Shi Helu and founded by Tang. It opened on February 27th (20th day of the first lunar month) 192 1, with Tang as the curator. At the beginning of the building, mountain products CCBA at the foot of Xishan was rented as a temporary building. 192 1 year1kloc-0/moved to Zunjing Pavilion of Confucian Temple in Xue Qian Street on February 2, and then expanded the school building 100, covering an area of more than 3,200 square meters. 1927 changed its name to Wuxi Institute of Chinese Studies in July, with a schooling of 3 years, which is equivalent to a national university. 1929 65438+February, renamed Wuxi Chinese Studies School. 193 1 Tang wrote the lyrics of the school song with "being a new citizen" as the school motto. In the same year, girls entered school. 1935 and 1936 purchased more than 60 mu of land in the northeast of Jie Bao Bridge, and planned a new school building, but it could not be implemented due to the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. 1937 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression outbreak. 165438+1At the beginning of October, the Sinology Museum moved to Wangxiang outside the south gate to attend classes, and then moved to Changsha, Xiangxiang, Hunan, Guilin, Guangxi, Beiliu and other places to insist on running schools. 65438-0939, junior high school graduates enrolled in five-year preparatory classes, and in the same year, Wuxi National College Shanghai Branch was established in Shanghai. /kloc-in the winter of 0/945, Wuxi resumed school and enrolled students. The school started in March of the following year, which is divided into two-year, three-year and five-year systems, and Shanghai still has a branch school. In the summer of the same year, Guilin headquarters moved back to Wuxi. At that time, there were more than 500 students in Wuxi, Guangxi and Shanghai, and the students came from 2 1 province (city). 1949 and 19. In July, the school was renamed China College of Literature, and Tang was appointed as the principal and vice principal respectively, and three departments of literature, history, geography and philosophy were established. 1950 65438+ 10, Wuxi National College Shanghai Branch merged. In May of the same year, China College of Literature was merged into Sunan College of Culture and Education. Wuxi Sinology Specialized School aims at preserving sinology and inheriting and promoting national culture, and advocates a solid foundation and expertise in exposition. Junior students pay attention to the study of basic courses, and senior students study different subjects according to their own specialties. Tang attached great importance to teachers, and successively hired experts and scholars such as Zhang Taiyan, Jin Songcen, Chen Shiyi, Qian Jibo, Lv Simian, Zhou Yutong, Zhou Gucheng, Cai Shangsi, Wang Quchang, Zhu Dongrun, Qian Zhonglian, Hu Quyuan, Zhang Shilu and Feng Zhenxin to teach in the school. Tang presided over Wuxi National College for 30 years, with more than 1700 graduates.
2011-02-2010: 47: 31Ye Dulu A Brief History of Wuxi Sinology School
Wuxi Sinology School was established in1920+February. 1928 was renamed as Wuxi sinology institute, and 1929 was renamed as Wuxi sinology school. August 1949, changed to China College of Literature. 1950 merged into Sunan Institute of Culture and Education in April. Meanwhile, 1937 broke out in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In order to oppose the Japanese aggression, the school moved from Changsha to Guilin to the rear on June 6 10. /kloc-in the spring of 0/939, it set up a branch school in Shanghai, so it was called Xipai, Guangxi School and Shanghai School. Guangxi schools were demobilized back to Wuxi 1946, and Shanghai schools and Wuxi schools merged to 1950.
The school takes Chinese studies, that is, China traditional culture, as the teaching and research object, which is unique in China. It has existed for 32 years before and after, and its scale is very small; However, due to the unique characteristics of running a school, a group of experts who are proficient in learning have been trained in various periods, which has won a reputation at home and abroad and written a valuable page for the history of modern higher education in China. 1920165438+10 In October, Shi Zhaozeng, a native of Qiantang, Zhejiang Province, urged Tang to establish Wuxi Museum of Chinese Studies in Wuxi as the curator through the introduction of Qilu, a native of Taicang, Jiangsu Province. Because "teaching at home" is Tang's "lifelong ambition", he generously agreed.
Not empty talk, but expensive Tang immediately enrolled students in Wuxi, Nanjing and Shanghai. Because of his reputation, the applicants are extremely enthusiastic, totaling nearly a thousand people. After evaluation, 24 full-time students and 6 extra students were admitted. 192 1 opened on the twentieth day of the first month. As the school building has not been built yet, we temporarily borrowed two buildings in Wuxi Merchants mountain products, which have the right to education and dormitory, and are located at the foot of Xishan. With the aim of "rectifying people's minds and saving lives", a special museum of Chinese studies is established, which attaches great importance to the cultivation of talents and morality, not only "encouraging learning" and strengthening physical and mental cultivation, but also paying special attention to practice and practice. According to the purpose of running a school, the school motto is: "to conscience."
As for the teaching methods, because the special museum of Chinese studies is different from the Shanghai Higher Institute of Technology, the teaching methods can not simply follow the former, but are based on the old-style academies and are improved from time to time.
At the beginning of the opening, the curator manually ordered 10 in the learning rules of Wuxi Guoxue Academy: practice, teaching, distinguishing righteousness, Confucian classics, neo-Confucianism, literature, politics, keeping quiet, maintaining humanity and saving the world. It conforms to the above-mentioned school-running purpose and comprehensively and systematically standardizes the quality and learning as the research and practice criteria of Chinese studies.
Tang's educational thought has both theoretical and practical significance, and his temperament education theory is pioneering. In order to make students understand and deepen the "temperament" contained in ancient characters, he strongly advocated reading and paid attention to the method of reading. Because of this, reading and reciting poems has become a long-standing tradition in Wuxi. In the teaching process, Tang set an example. Do what students are asked to do first. He is strict with his students. After teaching, he talked with the students in a planned way every day, checked and urged their study, and sometimes asked the students to recite poems themselves. But he is extremely amiable, and even sings Kunqu opera with the students after class. In his office, there is a couplet: "I was born to be useful, and others love children more than anything else." It shows that he loves his students as children. This set an example for the relationship between teachers and students in Wuxi National College.
192665438+February, with the graduation of the third class, the school gained a good reputation in the society and became more and more stable. From this time to the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it got gratifying development. 1June, 927, it was agreed to change the special museum into Wuxi Guoxue Academy, and it was written to the National Government Academy for instructions to build a private school. On September 20th, 1928, the school approved the establishment of Wuxi Chinese College, and in October, 1929 165438 was changed to Wuxi Chinese College.
During the years from 1927 to the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the number of students enrolled increased continuously, and 193 1 year recruited girls again. The increase in enrollment is bound to be the expansion of the school scale. In order to meet the needs of development, capital construction has been gradually expanded. The purpose of running a school has developed from "saving lives with the right heart" stipulated in the special library to "studying Chinese history and culture, making the best use of it, carrying forward it and making contributions to world culture". Take "being close to the people and being new" as the school motto.
From college to national college, its teaching method has changed the college mode of teaching the moon every day in the past and turned to the academic system of western schools. In teaching practice, it is extremely emphasized that it is not empty and pays attention to reality. It is necessary to read the original works of independent works, even if it is an independent system, we should try our best to talk about the original works.
In order to hire famous teachers and be inclusive, the headmaster attaches great importance to qualified teachers and knowledge rather than qualifications. During the period from filing the case for restructuring to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the teachers hired successively were (Shiyi), (Zong Ziquan, concurrently dean of education), Feng Zhen (concurrently dean of education), Cao, Zhu, Yang Tiefu, Gu Shi, Shan Feifei,, (word) Lu Xiuzuo, Ye Changqing and Lu Xiuzuo.
Wuxi National College also has a customization, that is, it holds an academic lecture every two weeks, invites professors in the school to talk about their strengths, and invites famous scholars outside the school, such as Jin Tianao (word Song Cen) to give lectures, and Zhang (word Taiyan) has also been here several times. Teachers have their own strengths, and students are naturally eclectic. In the teaching of Wuxi National College, the first and second grades pay attention to the foundation, and even the third grade does not forget the basic training, emphasizing the need for a solid foundation, and then the doctor will cancel the contract. In order to improve the academic atmosphere of the school, encourage and promote teachers and students to engage in academic research, the school paid attention to compiling and publishing all kinds of academic research results of teachers and students during the six or seven years after the reform.
On the campus of Wuxi National College, there is a good atmosphere for reading and studying. But it is not a place where you are immersed in "reading sage books with your ears closed to things outside the window" and a pool of stagnant water. The tradition of "hard work" and the teaching purpose of the school guide students out of the classroom and devote themselves to the torrent of patriotic struggle such as the "December 9" movement again and again. In particular, Dean Tang, who is old and frail, actively supports these activities. The patriotic movement of students has become a fine tradition of national universities.
1937 "July 7th Incident" was followed by the "August 13th Incident", which marked the arrival of a comprehensive War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Wuxi National College, like universities and middle schools along the coast, merged into a huge stream of schools in exile and moved to the mainland.
1June, 937, enemy planes bombed Wuxi. Only a few senior students attend classes at school. President Tang leads students of all grades to attend classes in Wangxiang, outside the south gate. 1 1 In June, the front line moved from Shanghai to China and decided to move inward. When Professor Chen Dingzhong (Ni Tian) wrote a letter from Changsha, the principal personally led dozens of people who moved in voluntarily, and moved to Changsha with the teachers and students of Jiangsu Institute of Education led by Yu Qingtang. From 65438 to 0938, the war was urgent, and the two lakes were in danger of being besieged and had to move inward again. Arrived in Guilin on February 9, and rented houses in Zhengyang Street and Huanhu Road to recruit new students.
1938 in late June, the class affairs of the school have ended. Principal Tang is old and unaccustomed to the environment. Decided to ask for leave from the Ministry of Education and return to Shanghai, with Feng Zhen, the dean of academic affairs, acting as the principal. In the face of many difficulties and obstacles, President Feng Dai lived up to the teacher's entrustment, persisted in running schools and persisted in the national war of resistance. In the meantime, due to the change of the war situation, the school moved many times before and after.
The victory of the Anti-Japanese War rejoiced the whole country! At this time, the Guilin school building has been destroyed by the war and is preparing to be demobilized back to Wuxi in the mountains. 1946 After the Spring Festival, teachers and students moved from Wuzhou to Guangzhou. Due to the traffic delay, they borrowed the shabby house of Sun Yat-sen University to stay in school. After March, they went to Shanghai by China Merchants Steamboat designated by the Ministry of Education and transferred to Wuxi in two batches. The relocation of more than eight years has finally come to an end.
1939 At the end of June, accompanied by Lu Jingzhou, President Tang transferred from Wuzhou to Hong Kong and arrived in Shanghai on July 10. On March 3rd 194 1, the Shanghai School started, commonly known as Wuxi National College Shanghai School, with more than 50 students. From September, 40 two-year and five-year freshmen will be enrolled. From then on until 1949, students were enrolled in spring and autumn.
Under extremely difficult conditions, President Tang made Shanghai School colorful. At that time, in addition to Wang Shaotang and Hao Liquan, the full-time professors of Shanghai University included Qian Zhonglian, Xia, Zhang Shilu and Lu Xiuhu. Adjunct professors account for the majority, including,, Jiang,, Huang, Cheng, Bao Ding, Zhu,, Wei Jianyou, Jin Dejian, Tang Yaofu, Guo Shaoyu, Hu Quyuan, Wu Piji, Gu Xianrong, Ge Suicheng, Liu Shisun, Jiang Zhongxiu and Liu Shisun.
Shanghai-style students have a serious and down-to-earth style of study and a strong reading atmosphere. There is no library in the school. Students borrow books from the Shanghai Library. Students organize academic organizations such as the National Style Poetry Society and the Historical Research Association to talk about and write poems, select poetry collections and write papers, and a few of them are published in newspapers and periodicals. Teachers and students still care about society while teaching. Imperial academy students, on the other hand, went out of school to take part in various struggles against Japanese aggression and Kuomintang dictatorship at the moment of national crisis and national future crisis. Some joined the army and entered the liberated areas, while others took part in the underground struggle in China, worthy of being the outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation.
1946 After the Spring Festival, teachers and students of Guangxi University bid farewell to all walks of life in Guangxi who gave all kinds of support and help, and arrived in Wuxi in May and June. Teachers and students of Guangxi University went to Wuxi to meet with Wuxi teachers and students, and the demobilization and rehabilitation work was completed. Because there are not enough school buildings to apply for, the affiliated middle school has to be closed. At this time, Shanghai School still exists relatively independently, and Wang Quchang still goes back to Shanghai to assist the headmaster in managing the daily affairs. In tin school, Feng Zhen is the director of academic affairs, general affairs and discipline.
Since the liberation of Wuxi in the summer of 1946, Xixuetang has set up three-year, five-year and two-year secretarial courses, which only started in the autumn, with a total of four sessions and a total of about 300 people. For example, Guangxi University and Shanghai University still implement the study period limit of combining academic year with credits. Teachers (professors and lecturers) employed successively include Feng Zhen, Jiang, Xiang Peiliang, Zhou, Yu Ruizheng, Li Li, Wang Yong, Qian Haiyue, Yan Jikuan, Feng, Wu, Zhou Baoru, Ding Ruhou, Zheng Xuemao, Jiang Tingrong and Ouyang.
From 1946 to 1949, when southern Jiangsu was liberated, Wuxi, like the Kuomintang-ruled areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, had a depressed people's livelihood and boiling public grievances. Students from ethnic colleges, together with college students from Shanghai, Nanjing and the whole country, are concerned about the political and social future of the country. Several major events forced them not to remain silent, walk out of the classroom or support protests or hold demonstrations.
The well-intentioned final stage of Wuxi National College is to reform the college and merge it into Sunan Institute of Culture and Education. After the victory of the new-democratic revolution, Wuxi College of Chinese Studies was renamed China College of Literature, with Tang as president, vice president, Yan Jixian as secretary-general and Qian Haiyue as dean. There are three departments: philosophy of literature, history and geography. On August 1 1 day (Gregorian calendar 65438+10.2), the celebration ceremony of school reform and opening up was held. /kloc-in the spring of 0/950, by order of the Ministry of Education of East China Military and Political Commission, Shanghai School was merged into Tin School. There is no financial support from the school board this semester, and the number of students has dropped sharply. After repeated discussions, he asked the government to merge China College of Literature into the Chinese Department of Sunan Institute of Culture and Education, which was quickly approved. So/kloc-more than 0/00 teachers and students all entered the cultural and educational college.
Wuxi National College has trained a large number of excellent middle school Chinese and history teachers, as well as researchers and professors in the fields of literature, history and philosophy, including wu shichang, Jiang Tianshu, Qian Zhonglian, Zhou, Zhu Xian, Wang Shaozeng, Wei Jianyou, Zou Yunxiang, Yang, Tang Zhijun, Fan Jingyi and others. Wuxi National College and its school-running characteristics and experience, as well as Tang's educational thought, have left a precious wealth for the history of higher education in China, which will never be forgotten.