School History Gallery of Beijing No.31 Middle School

Beijing No. 31 Middle School, located at No. 33, West Velvet Thread Hutong, Xicheng District, about 1,000 meters west of the world-famous Great Hall of the People, was founded in 1874 by the Anglican Church of China as the Zonta Academy. The school was closed in 1897 and resumed in 1903 in Hufangqiao Chinese Anglican Church, and in 1908, it moved into Velvet Thread Hutong to build Chongde Middle School, which officially opened on October 28, 1911, and was the earliest general middle school in Xicheng District and even in Beijing. At that time, there were only six or seven teachers in addition to the principal, and the students (including elementary school) were only thirty or forty. The first principal was the British missionary E Fong Chi, who was succeeded by Storma, and in 1920, the principal was the New Zealand missionary Jidofu, and in 1927, the school was established in the Beiping Municipal Bureau of Education, and the principal was Ling Xian Yang (a graduate of the University of Cambridge, England), which put an end to the foreigners' complete control over the school.

Beijing No. 31 High School has a glorious patriotic tradition. During the May Fourth Movement, the then Chongde students formed an autonomy association. The students defied the extreme obstruction of the then acting principal, E Fangzhi, and participated in the vigorous May Fourth Movement under the leadership of the Municipal Academic Federation.

After the May 30th tragedy in Shanghai in 1925, the anti-British atmosphere in Chongde Middle School was particularly high. In a show of anti-Britishness, most students dropped out or transferred to other schools, leaving less than 100 students at the start of the school year in September in what was then a school of about 200 students.

During the 1935 January 2. Nine Movement, some of Chongde's students walked out of the school early on Dec. 16 to participate in a march, despite the discouragement of the school's principal, Ling Xianyang. At a speech held in Zhongshan Park, Yang represented Chongde High School in a speech contest for secondary school students, and his speech was titled "The Responsibilities of Secondary School Students". From October to December 1936, Li Yi Zhou, Zhu Mai Xian, Sun Yiliang (Sun Daoling), Tao Sheng Li, Xu Shuren, Liu Zhong Yuan and other high school students led their classmates to start a salvation movement.

In November 1936, the Chinese army in Suiyuan resisted the Japanese invasion, Chongde resident students had saved part of the food expenses to support.

Japanese rule (1937-1945), Beijing secondary education was severely damaged. 1939, Chongde High School was forced to cease operation. 1940 spring, Yanjing University President Stuart Leiden and Ling Xian Yang secret negotiation, under the cover of Yan University will Chongde's old bottom moved to the Haidian Weixiu Park, the establishment of the high school of Yan University. In August of the same year, enrollment of freshman and sophomore students **** more than 150 people, September school, by Ling Xian Yang as director of the high school. December 8, 1941, Japan and the United States Pacific War broke out, yanjing university and high school at the same time was closed by the Japanese. 1945, August, after the victory of the war of resistance against Japan, in the Chongde alumni and teachers initiative sponsored by Chongde middle school in September of the same year. Still by Ling Xian Yang as principal.

In the spring of 1947, the civil war waged by the Kuomintang intensified, and in April, the underground party's school committee set up a political organization of patriotic young students in Beiping, the Democratic Youth League. Soon after, Chongde Middle School established the organization, Li Youbin, Zheng Jiadeng, Zhuang Shoujing and other comrades were the first batch of alliance members. in early November 1947, the official establishment of Chongde Middle School's Zhong*** underground party branch, with Li Youbin as the secretary, Gu Anran as the organizing committee member, and Zheng Jiadeng as the propaganda committee member. After the establishment of the underground party branch, leading students to actively participate in the patriotic and democratic movement, the organization continues to grow, in the lead up to the liberation of Beiping, the school has successively 17 members of the C*** Party, more than 40 members of the People's Alliance. 1948 the end of the People's Liberation Army encircled Beiping, the Kuomintang army retreating, the school was once turned into the Kuomintang wounded soldiers shelters, and could not attend classes. Ling Xian Yang, encouraged by someone in the church, dismissed the entire school staff. At that time, the underground party branch of the school organized a team of teachers and students to protect the school, day and night duty patrol, ushered in the liberation of Beiping, and victoriously organized the teachers and students to participate in the entry ceremony of the People's Liberation Army.

On January 31, 1949, the People's Liberation Army entered the city, and the teachers and students of Chongde Middle School cheered the liberation of Beiping with great excitement at the five-plaque tower in front of the front gate.

The school opened on schedule in February 1949, and the school board was reorganized. The school board was reorganized, and the People's Educators Union was formed among the faculty and staff so that the power of the school was in the hands of the people. 1950 Ling Xian Yang resigned, and the school board resolved to ask Li Ruiqi to take up the post of principal.

In October 1952, all private secondary schools in Beijing were taken over by the government. Chongde Middle School was renamed Beijing No. 31 Middle School, and all of its faculty and staff were retained. Li Ruiqi was the first principal of the public school. The Party and the government sent Comrade Tao Kai to be the Secretary of the Party Branch and Vice-Principal, and the school has since grown under the direct leadership of the Party and the Municipal Education Bureau.

Self-financed students from the general lower class children of Chongde Middle School were few. About half of the students come from the children of the small and medium-sized bourgeoisie and their upper bureaucrats; about one-fifth of the students are the children of church clergy and religious. The children of clergymen were given priority in enrollment without examination and were exempted from paying tuition and miscellaneous fees; the children of churchmen were required to pass an examination, and those whose families were well-off paid their own way, while those who were in need were entitled to free tuition or scholarships; another five or six percent of the students were selected from elementary school of churches in the rural areas of Hebei Province. From 1913 to 1927, every summer vacation in the distribution of Yongqing, Anguo, Hetao, Xianxian, Suning and other places in the diocese set up Zongde high primary school enrollment points, enrollment by the parents to report how much they can pay the tuition fee; accepted students to pay annual tuition ranging from 5 yuan to 20 yuan, after enrollment, free of other miscellaneous boarding and lodging fees, to enjoy the Church of the treatment of the gold, the summer and winter holidays home to send the travel expenses. Their academic performance is generally good. Self-financed students are not bound by any constraints after graduation. Free and scholarship students who wanted to go on to higher education could only enroll in schools agreed to by the church - Yanjing University, Union Medical College, Beijing Tax College, Shandong Qilu University Medical School, Wuchang Wenhua University, Shanghai St. John's University, or Nanjing Jinling Theological Seminary. Nearly all customs offices across the country had Chongde graduates before liberation.

English teaching is more prominent in the school. From the fifth grade of elementary school onwards, all were taught using the direct method. Teachers were mostly British instructors. Textbooks are ordered directly from the United Kingdom or should be written by the school's British female instructor Ridland, high school also used Lin Yutang and other writers by the Ka Ming bookstore printed textbooks. The advantage of this approach is that the pronunciation is accurate and in line with the students' level of English. Many graduates report that the foundation for their success in English-related jobs was laid at our school.

The teaching of Chinese emphasized classical literature, and initially tried to hire some old scholars to teach the classes, such as Zuo Pei (a top scholar), Wu Leichuan (a Hanlin, later president of Yanjing University), and Wang Heqiao (a Bugong). This also attracted some literati of the late Qing Dynasty to send their sons and daughters to apply for the school, such as Liang Siyong and Liang Sicheng, sons of Liang Qichao, Chen Maogang, son of Chen Baochen (Puyi's teacher), and Liu Haiyun, son of Liu Chunlin (the last scholar of the late Qing Dynasty).

Mathematics textbooks are compiled by the school for both elementary and junior high school, and are distinguished by the fact that plane geometry is taught in the fifth grade of elementary school and algebra in the first grade of junior high school. The self-compiled geometry textbooks start with geometric drawings to arouse students' perceptual understanding and interest from visualization. Algebra is taught in the self-translated and printed textbook "General Algebra", co-edited by the British mathematicians Ko Fook Lai and Siddons, which is characterized by the introduction of concepts from images, with many visual illustrations. Lectures are taught in English beginning in the third grade of secondary school, allowing students to strengthen their English language training while learning math.

The school has a strong focus on the teaching of Chinese language, mathematics, and especially English. The management and supervision of students' study and self-study are relatively strict, prompting students to develop a good reading culture.

The love of sports has become a trend at Chongde Middle School. The school pays special attention to soccer, tennis and wall ball activities, there is a soccer field, three tennis courts and several wall courts. Chongde soccer team was once quite famous in the city. The school team often played against the British Embassy's British Soldiers soccer team. In addition, it also played against Tongzhou Luhe Middle School and Beijing Huiwen Middle School and won. Soccer has always been a traditional sport in Chongde Middle School. It has also trained many outstanding soccer players. In the 1950s, we held many soccer matches to make a small contribution to the fight against the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Soccer has become a favorite sports activity of the whole school.

In 1961, Beijing No.31 Middle School was designated as a key middle school in Xicheng District by the Municipal Bureau of Education, and the school has developed even more since then.

After the Cultural Revolution, it was the first school in the city to officially resume classes, and the teaching order was stable and the quality of teaching steadily improved, making it the only middle school in the city and even in the country that was open at that time. Since its establishment, Beijing 31st High School has trained more than 20,000 students. In the late summer and early fall of 1933, Chongde Middle School welcomed a new batch of students, among whom was Yang Zhenning, the later Nobel Prize winner in physics. Born on August 11, 1922 in Hefei County, Anhui Province, Yang's father, Yang Wuzhi, was appointed professor of mathematics at Tsinghua University in the fall of 1929, and the family went to Peking. The family went to Beiping. At Chongde Middle School, Yang received formal secondary education. In 1938, Yang was admitted to the Southwest United University (SWU), which was the largest educational center in China at that time, and was formed by the merger of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University. Life at SWJU provided Yang with opportunities to learn and grow, and in the summer of 1945, Yang traveled to the U.S. to pursue his studies.In 1957, Yang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Li Zhengdao***.In 1971, Prof. Yang was the first Chinese American scientist to return to visit the new China, where he had a lengthy conversation with Chairman Mao Zedong. During his visit, as well as in 1994 and 1998, he visited his alma mater, Beijing No. 31 Middle School. Yang has made positive contributions to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, to the further education of Chinese scholars in the United States, and in the development of education, science and technology in China. His thoughts, words and deeds have far exceeded all that a physicist has done, especially his heartfelt concern for the Chinese nation and his noble patriotism have touched us y. On his first visit to China, he made a list of people he wanted to meet, and the first person on the list was his dear friend, Deng Jiaxian, a classmate at Chongde Middle School.

Deng was born on June 25, 1924, in Bai Lin Ban, Huai Ning County, Anhui Province. He and Yang Zhenning were from the same hometown, and his father, Deng Yijin, was a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, and Yang Wuzhi, Yang Zhenning's father, was an old and deep friend for many years. Deng and Yang had a deep friendship since they were children, and in 1936, Deng was transferred from Zhicheng Middle School to Chongde Middle School for his second year of junior high school. Deng Jiaxian's academic performance improved rapidly in middle school, half because he was already grown up and began to understand things; on the other hand, it was also because he was living in the environment of heavy national oppression, and he felt that in order to save our country, he had to have knowledge and skills. This may have been a rather hazy realization in his mind at that time, but it existed after all. In the fall of 1941, Deng was admitted to the Physics Department of the Southwest Associated University, and in the fall of 1948, Deng was entrusted by his father's good friend, Professor Yang Wuzhi, to study in the U.S.A. He went to the U.S.A. in the company of Yang's younger brother, Yang Zhenping, and on August 20, 1950, he defended his doctoral dissertation in Physics at Purdue University. On the ninth day after receiving his doctoral degree, Deng set off for China. After returning to China, Deng worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for about eight years, and in August 1958, Deng obeyed the organization's transfer and presided over the theoretical design of the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb. Deng Jiaxian was the pioneer and founder of China's nuclear weapons theoretical research, and he devoted his wisdom, personal happiness and even his life to the cause of China's national defense without any compensation. He worked conscientiously and tirelessly for 28 years. Following the breakthroughs in the principles of atomic and hydrogen bombs, he successfully developed and further weaponized atomic and hydrogen bombs for China, and then successfully developed a new type of reinforced hydrogen bomb, making major theoretical breakthroughs and successful tests of the second generation of new nuclear weapons. He was awarded the Grand Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress at the national level four times. He has made a significant and indelible contribution to the revitalization of China's national prestige and the exaltation of the Chinese people. He is known as China's two bombs. July 29, 1986, severely damaged by radiation, suffering from rectal cancer, Deng Jiaxian finally died due to hemorrhage. His last words were: die without regret.

The Chongde Middle School trained students in the famous architect Liang Sicheng, China's geodesy and geomorphology founder Fang Jun, the world's master of structural engineering Lin Tongyan, organic chemist Gao Zhenheng, geophysicist Qin Xinling, the famous material scientists Yan Dongsheng, mathematician Guan Zhaozhi and other seven academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Together with Yang Zhenning and Deng Jiaxian, Chongde Middle School*** has trained nine academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Famous movie performer Sun Daolin, drama performer Lin Liankun, lyricist Kai Chuan, painter Ding Wu, sports activist, former dean of the Beijing Institute of Physical Education, the FIVB Rules Committee Chairman Ma Qiwei, the country's first swimmers to cross the Strait of Qiongzhou, the first to successfully cross the Bohai Strait, creating a world record for the Beijing University of Physical Education teachers, Zhang Jian, the former national soccer team players Zhang Kunyue, sports announcer Song Shixiong, orthopedic expert Feng Chuanhan, special actor Liu Xitian, etc., Ambassador Wang Lian in Finland, former Peking University Library Director, British Encyclopedia translator Zhuang Shoujing, Director of Beida Publishing House, Lin Shengli, brothers Zhao Zhenkang and Zhao Zhenchuan, who received doctorate degrees of engineering and medicine, respectively, Feng Chuanhan and Huang Zuiting, who once served as director of the People's Hospital, renowned photographer Liao Zengyi, internationally renowned electrical expert Liao Zengwu, and the president of the People's Hospital Ma Qiwei. Liao Zengwu, a renowned electrical machinery expert, and three brothers, Liao Zengqi; Jiang Ping, former president of the China University of Political Science and Law and a famous jurist; Lin Xincheng, a calligrapher; Sun Yizeng, a cartoonist; Zhang Wendong, a Go player; and Zhang Guangbei, a famous movie actor; and Cong Shan, all of whom have studied at the school.

Since the founding of New China, the children of many revolutionaries of the old generation and social celebrities, such as Cai Yankai, Wang Zhen, An Ziwen, Li Jingquan, Yang Chengwu, Tong Xiaopeng, Liao Hansheng, Wu Lie, etc., have all studied at Beijing No. 31 High School. Many alumni's grandparents and grandchildren spent their middle school years on this campus.

Whether it is Chongde Middle School or the present Beijing No. 31 Middle School, it has laid a good foundation for the students who studied here in their lives. As Academician Yan Dongsheng said when he returned to his alma mater in August 1985, Beijing No. 31 High School has cultivated a large number of talents for China, and teaching and educating people has always been the purpose of our alma mater. I spent my entire middle school years here, and I thank my alma mater for laying a good foundation for my life.

This is a valuable asset of Beijing No. 31 High School. In order to better inspire the current students, with the strong support of Professor Wang Zhenwu, a 48th alumnus of the Northeast Polytechnic University in Qinhuangdao, the Honor Room of Beijing No. 31 High School was inaugurated in October 1995, in which the deeds of nine academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, representatives of the outstanding alumni, were exhibited. Since then, it has become a base for the school's patriotism education, school-loving education and moral education.

Beijing No.31 High School has not only cultivated many outstanding talents, but also has many teachers who have created outstanding performance in their respective work. after the Tangshan Earthquake on July 28, 1976, the school set up a seismic team headed by Mr. Mao Pusen. They informed the State Seismological Bureau and relevant units of the observed data in a timely manner, providing important evidence for the superior to make timely earthquake forecasts. For three consecutive years, he used the method of monitoring earthquakes by receiving pre-earthquake electromagnetic (wave) radiation, receiving pre-earthquake information many times and visually measuring the approximate location. He wrote a paper on this result, which was published in the first issue of the Journal of Seismology in 1986. At the National Conference on Pre-Earthquake Electromagnetic Waves, his ideas were adopted by the General Assembly. He also introduced computer technology and designed the Intelligent Recording Instrument of Pre-Seismic Electromagnetic Radiation, which was approved by the State Patent Bureau in October 1990, and was selected as one of the most popular instruments in the field of seismology. In October 1990, the State Patent Bureau approved this patent application. Mao Pu Sen's name was selected for inclusion in the May 1992 edition of the Dictionary of Modern Chinese Inventors. Beijing No. 31 High School, a school with a glorious history, has been revitalized in today's education reform. The campus environment is more neat and beautiful, and it is a greening and beautifying garden unit in Beijing. The whole campus covers an area of 17,000 square meters, with well-equipped laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology, audio classrooms, electrochemical classrooms, computer network classrooms, multimedia preparation rooms and special classrooms for music and art. The library has a collection of 50,000 books, the reading room can accommodate 150 students at the same time, 130 kinds of newspapers and magazines for teachers and students to choose to read. 200-meter running track of the playground and covers an area of 900 square meters of swimming pool for teachers and students to provide conditions for physical exercise.

Beijing No.31 High School is a civilized campus in Xicheng District with strict governance and a positive school spirit. The existing staff of 143 people, including 40 senior teachers, Xicheng District subject leader 8. The successive leaders of the school have attached great importance to carry forward the fine tradition of virtue, the implementation of the Party's education policy, the implementation of honesty, civilization, unity of the school motto, and advocate diligence, thoughtfulness, and tenacity of the school style. Insisting on teaching as the center and moral education as the core, we have increased our efforts in educational research, implemented hierarchical management, perfected the moral education objectives of different school-age groups, strengthened psychological education, and advocated and explored more effective classroom teaching modes such as heuristic and discussion. Improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching, accelerate the modernization of educational technology, and strive to explore new ways of educational reform, and improve the overall quality of education.

On the basis of all-round development, the school focuses on cultivating students' abilities and specialties, especially in Beijing Opera, piano, accordion, electronic organ, volleyball and swimming specialties. Thirty-one Middle School is a traditional school of volleyball, the sports program of Beijing, and the school volleyball team has represented Beijing to participate in the national secondary school volleyball competition. It is the training base of soft volleyball in Beijing. Soccer and Swimming have also performed well in the Xicheng District Competition. The newly built form classroom has enriched the students' cultural and sports activities, and the special students have greater development in the thirty-first high school. 2000 China Youth Research Association, China Youth Research Center was named China Youth Quality Education Research and Practice Base

The school attaches importance to the application of modern educational technology, in 1985 in the "human heart" biology teaching the use of composite slides, homemade videos, teaching movie clips and other means, the school has been the first to use this technology to teach the human heart. After that, the thirty-first in the hardware and software in the e-learning has been a greater development. It has developed its own control platform for electrified classrooms and a number of electrified teaching equipment and teaching software needed for the modernization of education, which are widely used in classroom teaching. In the process of promoting the modernization of education, a number of outstanding young teachers emerged. 1990 was named the first batch of Beijing's excellent schools of e-learning, and 1997 was named by the Ministry of Education as the National Experimental School of Modern Education Technology. The school has undertaken a municipal research project on the application of modern educational technology in subject teaching.

Health first is the guiding ideology of the school's work, the school focuses on infrastructure construction, to meet the needs of students to grow up healthily, close community relations, pay attention to the teachers, teachers and students to establish healthy and harmonious interpersonal relationships, in 1997, the whole school teachers and students donated more than 40,000 yuan for a student suffering from bone cancer, so that the student was very encouraging, and eventually overcome the disease, and in 2000, after high school to Sweden to study. 1999, the school through the Beijing Municipal Education Bureau, the school was named the first experimental school of modern education technology. In 1999, the school passed the Health Promotion School Bronze Medal Acceptance.

Beginning in 1997, XXXI High School took the initiative to undertake the task of educational poverty alleviation. Each year, the school trains 10 high school students of ethnic minorities in Luchun County, Yunnan Province, who are excellent in both character and learning, and the first 10 students were all promoted to universities in 2000.

Beijing Thirty-first High School is an open unit, over the years, it has received more than 12,000 people from nearly 100 countries (regions), among them Snow, an old friend of the Chinese people, and Mr. and Mrs. Li Zhengdao, Chinese-American scientists, etc. The famous Dutch film director Evans and Mr. and Mrs. Li Zhengdao have been invited to visit the school. The famous Dutch film director Evans and French filmmakers Maslin in 1972, 1974, two visits to the school, and thirty-one teachers in the content of education of students as the subject of the film "the story of the ball", the film in April 1974 Paris Film Festival of more than 200 films in the first place.

In 1992, No. 31 Middle School formed a sister school relationship with Fukuoka Prefectural Genkai Higher School in Japan. Through the exchanges between the two schools, the pride and sense of responsibility of teachers and students have been strengthened, the ability of students to participate in international exchanges has been cultivated, and the all-round development of students has been promoted.

Beijing No. 31 High School, after more than a hundred years of wind and rain, the small building at the beginning of the school seems to tell people those long-ago stories and the former glory, and in the deepening of education reform today, Beijing No. 31 High School is moving forward!