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Zigong financial media reporter Chen Fanyi
On the campus of Shuguang Middle School in Zigong City in September, after an autumn rain, the students strolled in front of Gongneng Road, the Great Hall, the Sishu Pavilion and the Jingsi Monument, feeling the thick heritage of the century-old school, and talking excitedly about their youth dreams, presenting a different autumn picture.
Shuguang Middle School is the first middle school in the city built in 1924 by Zigong salt merchants, and in 1938, Mr. Zhang Boling, a famous patriotic educator and founder of Nankai Education, took over the school, and started the journey of running a high-quality school in Shuguang. Over the past 100 years, the development of the school has always been closely related to the changes of the times. The buildings of the Republic of China of the school are the witnesses of the times, they are not only the historical witness of Shuguang for a hundred years, but also the inheritance of the spirit of Shuguang, and the spiritual home of the majority of teachers, students and alumni.
The existing buildings of the Republic of China in Shuguang Middle School include the old teaching building that witnessed the patriotic general Feng Yuxiang coming to the school to deliver an anti-Japanese speech, the old principal's villa that was the residence of Zhang Boling and Yu Chuanjian, the monument left by the 1944 graduates to his alma mater, the Xiyin Building built by the 1945 graduates who performed the patriotic drama "Yue Fei" with the box office, and the Sishu Pavilion built by the 1941 graduates with the funds raised from the public performance of the drama "Country First". In 2018, these buildings were listed as the seventh batch of municipal cultural relics protection units in Zigong City as the "Shuguang Middle School Republic of China Building Complex".
The gate of Shuguang School was originally engraved with six big characters of "Private Shuguang Middle School". The ink-black handwriting, inlaid on the doorpost made of gray-white fine tiles, is black and white, elegant and solemn, and the cursive font of the pen and snake makes people feel an artistic atmosphere as soon as they enter the school gate. This was inscribed for Xinshuguang by Mr. Yu Youren in 1938 before the opening of the new Shuguang school, at the request of Mr. Zhang Boling, a famous educator and chairman of the Shuguang School Council. In 1984, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the school special issue published the old photos of the school gate in the right inscription, the school immediately decided to restore the school name inscription on the school gate, the "old three" alumni fully supported, in the 70th anniversary of the school gate to rebuild the school gate, and then engraved the inscription.
The old teaching building of Shuguang Middle School is the location of today's Shuguang Middle School History Museum, and the history of Shuguang teachers and students who have been angry and strong for the prosperity of the Chinese nation in the past hundred years are recorded here. The building was built in 1937 and has a construction area of 1,680 square meters. The old teaching building has three floors, the whole is a brick and wood structure of Western-style buildings, including lecture halls, offices, warehouses, auditoriums, with a floor width of 35 meters and a depth of 48 meters. In recent years, Shuguang Middle School has carried out maintenance of the teaching building, and the surface of the old teaching building has been tiled. The overall architectural design of the old teaching building is excellent and the form is exquisite, which has important cultural relics, historical and scientific research value for the study of modern Zigong salt merchants, economic and social development.
This is a memorial pavilion left by the graduating class of 1941 for their alma mater before they left school. In the summer of 1941, President Yu Chuanjian gave a speech in the "Graduation Book" of the class of 1941: "Life activities are limited in self-employment and endless in common work. The value of life, not in the individual but in the whole, this is still a trickle of water, there is a source and endless, the confluence is a river, its and the dynasty in the sea, the smoke and waves are vast, the fish and dragon are infested, and then it is a great view. He encouraged the students to keep in mind the school motto of "public energy", to respect the truth to set the trend, to respect themselves to be effective, to innovate to be talented, and to contribute to the revitalization of the voice and light of the Chinese nation. The young students will never forget the sincere teachings of their alma mater, and specially raised funds to build the "Sishu Pavilion" on the top of the back mountain. The fund-raising method is the public performance drama "Country First", etc., with an income of more than 4,500 yuan. Principal Yu Chuanjian formulated a blueprint for him in Chongqing and gave him the name "Sishu Pavilion". Since then, the Sishu Pavilion, which was completed in mid-March 1941, has become an eternal landmark building of Shuguang.
Xiyin Building was built in 1945, covering an area of 21.5 square meters, sitting east to west. Located on the mountainside of Tingzi Mountain, Xiyin Building is a commemorative bell tower left by the school's 1945 graduates on campus before parting in order to express their love for their alma mater. On the occasion of the completion of the bell tower, the school specially invited Feng Yu, a patriotic general who had twice visited Shuguang Middle School to launch an anti-Japanese donation, to write three big characters of "cherish the Yin Building" and engrave it on the bell tower. Destroyed by lightning strike in 1958, on November 30, 1995, the Xiyin Building was rebuilt according to the original appearance at the original site, and the 1945 graduates of the school donated funds to set up the stone tablet of "Xiyin Building" indoors.
Standing on the hill behind the campus, the monument was built in the summer of 1944 as a memorial to the alma mater for the male and female students of the school's 1944 high school graduating class, meaning "respect for teachers and miss their alma mater", and engraved with inscriptions, deep feelings. Over the past 70 years, how many early mornings and dusks, under the monument, have become a "holy place" for students to devote themselves to reading, extracurricular assemblies, and recreation and rest. When alumni from other places who have left their alma mater for many years return to Shuguang, they always come to the Jingsi Monument to wander and look forward. It is a pity that the inscription of the "Four Olds" was destroyed during the ten years of catastrophe, and the stele stone peeled off, making this former solemn and quiet building full of devastation. In 1984, the 60th anniversary of the school special issue "Shuguang" published the old photos of the "Jing Si Monument" that year, and the school began to restore this cultural relic on the occasion of the school anniversary.
The old principal's dormitory of Shuguang Middle School was built at the end of 1937, sitting east to west, it is 3 independent Western-style western-style buildings, each villa has the same building structure, the whole is a Western-style courtyard house with brick and wood structure, the small villa is 13 meters wide, 8 meters deep, and each villa has 4 rooms. The building is the same building as the old teaching building, school gate and swimming pool, and is now a staff dormitory. As the first batch of buildings of Shuguang Middle School, the old principal's dormitory has important cultural relics, historical and scientific research value for the study of modern Zigong education, economic and social development.
As one of the series of schools in Nankai, Shuguang Middle School, which has a century-old heritage, has always enjoyed a good reputation in the land of Bashu, and has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents represented by academicians and experts such as Hu Haitao, an expert in engineering geology and environmental geology, Wang Fangding, a radiochemist, Hou Chaohuan, an expert in signal processing and acoustics, Wang Yahui, a cell biologist, Wang Qi, an expert in plastic processing equipment, and Zhao Pengda, an expert in mathematical geology and mineral survey and exploration, and a large number of outstanding students have been sent to colleges and universities.
"The shore of the Tuojiang River, the Jin of Puxi, the spirit of my Shuguang. "Many years after graduation, no matter where the students are, when this beautiful school song rings in their ears, even if they have forgotten all the knowledge in the books, they still have not forgotten the high spirits when they once climbed the Sishu Pavilion, the applause in the auditorium was thunderous, and the hard work of studying in the Yin Building.......
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