This guy, it's a bit boring.
Don't smoke, don't drink, don't rub hemp, don't bubble girls... White blinded the income of the family's thousands of acres of fertile land.
Even if he didn't play, he also forbade his family to play.
What does he like to do? He's had a super boring hobby all his life – education!
He ran two secondary schools, one for girls and one for boys.
He had 10 children, all of whom married celebrities, all of whom married celebrities, and all of whom became celebrities.
He is friends with Cai Yuanpei, Jiang Menglin and others, and after he is also a celebrity, he has some social relations. But he runs a school, does not engage in any bank loans, a round of investment or anything, does not accept donations, and even does not charge tuition fees for poor students, he sells the school, relatives and friends say, you are sick, you have money not to spend on your own children, spend on other people's children?
He is one of China's famous family-destroying losers.
He is the famous Educator of the Republic of China and the Father-in-law of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Jimu!
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Never heard of it?
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After celebrities, they are the losers who destroy their families and run schools
In 1889, Zhang Jimu was born in a large landlord family in Hefei, Anhui Province, and his grandfather was Zhang Shusheng, a famous General of the Huai Army in the Qing Dynasty.
As a well-known large household in Hefei, the Zhang family has many children and thousands of acres of good land, and only in the name of Zhang Jimu, there are 100,000 quintals of rent every year. The family is full of stupid children, idle and nothing to smoke opium, gamble a bo, bored to marry an aunt and other things, too normal.
Zhang Jimu, who was influenced by the May Fourth New Trend, was very dismissive of these things that corrupted the door style. He gave birth to a large group of children, fearing that the children would be damaged by their invisible relatives, so he decided to move his family, first from Hefei to Shanghai, and then settled in Suzhou.
Zhang Jimu did not inherit the tradition of the Zhang family's generations of politics, on the contrary, he kept a distance from politics and parties, and he preferred to use education to change society with education. In 1921, he sold some of his family property and established a private middle school, Leyi Girls' High School. Le refers to optimism and enterprising, beneficial to the community, taking this name is to tell everyone that I run the school to meet the needs of society and step up a step for the country's higher education.
The configuration of Leyi Girls is not low, garden-type campus, Western-style teaching building, there are piano books, experimental instruments, and sports equipment. Students want to take a walk between classes, talk about love or something (sorry, it seems that the girls' school can't talk about love, this one please ignore automatically), you can go to the special pavilion, the pavilion is planted around the white plum green willow. This Chinese-Western campus alone cost Zhang Jimu 20,000 silver dollars.
Zhang Jimu often asked Cai Yuanpei, Ma Xiangbo and other celebrities in the education circles at that time for advice on how to do a good school and run education well. He invited many academic stars to serve as school trustees and teachers, such as Zhang Wentian, Liu Yazi, Ye Shengtao and others, all of whom had been teachers in his school.
(Photo: Zhang Jimu and Cai Yuanpei (right))
He is very generous to his own doors, but he is very generous to the teachers, which is a typical example of torturing himself and treating others, and the principal he hired has a salary of 160 yuan a month, and the salary of the dean of Shanghai University in the same period is only 120 yuan, deducting miscellaneous expenses, and it is 80. In addition to the high salary, the principal also demanded that his family move out of the school, and the school's assets should be at the disposal of the principal. He said yes one by one.
When his children recall him, they say that his money always meets the costs of school first, and then he will give his children tuition and travel expenses, and so on. The school's income is less than 2,000 per year, and after the income and expenditure are offset, he will post more than 5,000. In 1932, the director of Leyi Girls' Middle School preliminarily calculated that Zhang Jimu's investment in running a school had reached more than 250,000 yuan, and the cost was all paid by himself, out of disgust with the old-style education, he hoped to adhere to his own school philosophy to engage in education, so he did not absorb investment. If you accept other people's money, it is inevitable to listen to others' pointing.
Zhang Jimu was open-minded and avant-garde, and he ran the women's middle school because he saw that women's status in the old society was inferior, and he wanted to advocate women's rights and call on women to come and learn cultural knowledge. His school not only held sports meetings, performed plays such as "The Merchant of Venice", but also invited avant-garde female teachers with short hair to teach, and in Suzhou at that time, short-haired women brought no less visual impact than bikinis.
These female teachers have also brought a new atmosphere to the school, the girls cut their hair short, in order to save women as their duty, to organize the women's federation, but also drafted the relevant charter, and advertised in the newspaper to solicit colleagues. Later, together with several other girls' schools in Suzhou, the Suzhou Women's Federation was formed, which had a great impact on society.
(Photo: Female middle school students organize activities on the playground, and there are already many short haircuts)
For young teachers who perform well, Zhang Jimu often encourages and rewards, waives tuition fees for students from poor families, and continues to fund their further education after graduation.
In 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhang Jimu returned to his hometown of Hefei with his family and relatives, and the Leyi Girls' High School also came to an end.
Democracy governs the family, and 10 children are talented
(Photo: Zhang Family Ten Brothers and Sisters)
In the family, Zhang Jimu also created a democratic and open growth environment for his 10 children. He pays great attention to the tutoring method, and when he sees his daughters gambling, he does not reprimand them loudly, but tries to divert his daughter's interests. For example, he took his daughter to the study with the flowers and green costumes, and the children liked it when they saw it. Later, Zhang Jimu invited Kunqu Mingdan to teach them Kunqu opera, which was unimaginable for ordinary large households in the old society where drama was not in the flow.
The progressive ideas of fatherhood and equality also influence children. The youngest daughter, Zhang Chonghe, burst into tears when she saw her childhood playmate, the servant's son, kneeling down to give herself a salute when they met many years later. For other large households, the servant kowtowed to the master to ask for peace, which belonged to the category of professional etiquette, and the master received it with peace of mind, coldly glanced at it, and shouted "Get up".
But Zhang Chonghe said, how good we played when we were young, you took the petals and sprinkled them on me, all the sprinkles were friendship, what did I do to make you do this to me now. In Zhang Chonghe's eyes, people are equal in personality, and there is no distinction between respect and inferiority.
The fourth son of the Zhang family was a bully in middle school, but in the third semester he was ordered to withdraw from school because he was not satisfied with the teacher's teaching level, and when he saw that the teacher was often stunned on the podium, he had nothing to say, so he wrote to the teacher to persuade the teacher to read more books. The school thought he was disrespectful to his teacher and ordered him to withdraw from school.
The fourth son, Zhang Yuhe, returned home trembling, afraid of being scolded by his father. Who knows, after explaining the original commission, the father also smiled slightly, and said: "You are not wrong, he (referring to the school director who expelled his son) is not wrong." Then the father asked, "What's next?" Zhang Yuhe said very easily, no big deal, go to other schools. Zhang Jimu nodded, and things passed without alarm.
From these examples, we can also see that Zhang Jimu pays attention to cultivating children's benign interests and has a good character education for children. When a child makes a mistake, he can calmly listen to the reasons, find ways to encourage and guide the child to have his own ideas, and support the child's ideas. Not to mention how many parents can do it in old-fashioned homes, even today?
Therefore, when recalling his father, Zhang Jimu's son Zhang Huanhe believes that his father is a person with broad interests, inclusiveness, like science, and his thinking is ahead of the times.
Because he was well aware of Zhang Jimu's ability in education, the great writer Ye Shengtao would say the famous words: "The four talented women of the Zhang family in Jiuru Lane, whoever marries them will be happy for a lifetime." ”
Under zhang jimu's enlightened education, 10 sons and daughters are all talented, except for the two sons who died young, everyone else has achieved good results in their respective fields. In particular, the marriage of 4 daughters has been talked about for a long time. 4 daughters, all of them, and have progressive ideas, attracting many men's side eyes. Zhang Jimu can be called the national father-in-law of that era.
(Photo: The four sisters of the Zhang family take a group photo with their father)
(Pictured: Zhang Shi Silan, from left, Chonghe, Zhaohe, Yunhe, Yuanhe)
In the end, the four sisters of the Zhang family, known as Zhang Silan, married four young men who looked inconspicuous at the time, but then all became celebrities. Lao Dayuanhe married Gu Chuanyue, a famous kunqu opera character, Lao Eryunhe married Zhou Youguang, who was known as the father of Hanyu Pinyin, and Lao Sanzhaohe became more famous, her husband was Shen Congwen, and Lao Sichonghe was married to the American sinologist Fu Hansi.
In 1938, Zhang Jimu died of dysentery in Xixiang, Hefei, at the age of 49. The Leyi Girls' High School and the four sisters of the Zhang family have become a good story that has been passed down in history for a long time.