History of Wuhu County No. 1 Middle School

1920-1936)

At the beginning of this century, at the climax of the May 4th Movement, the New Culture Movement emerged, affecting many places. Open schools. In August 1920, local people in Xuancheng who were enthusiastic about running schools petitioned the then Provincial Department of Education for approval to establish the Xuancheng Sericulture School in front of the Qing Guerrilla Office on Fenggong Street, Xiaodongmen, Xuancheng. In 1922, Xuancheng Sericulture School was changed to Anhui Agricultural School, and at the end of the same year it was changed to a public junior high school in Liuyi, Ningguo Prefecture, Anhui (Xuancheng, Nanling, Jingxian, Jingde, Ningguo, Taiping). During its founding period, the school had less than 100 teachers, students, and employees. The principals include Zhou Zhizhen, Wu Rongsheng and Mao Lusun.

In the late 1930s, there was a girls' junior high school in Xuancheng. The school was located in the County Confucius Temple. It had only three classes and nearly 90 students. Zhang Boxi and Zhang Yiqing successively served as the principals of the school. Due to financial constraints and too few students, in the summer of 1936, it merged with Ningshi Liuyi Public Junior High School and was renamed Ningshi Liuxian United Middle School. The school is located in Confucius Temple, the former site of Girls' Middle School, and has been slightly repaired. The first principal was Jiang Kangshi, a native of Jingde. At that time, Ningzhu United Middle School had three grades and six classes. Boys and girls were taught in separate classes. There were nearly 200 students and about 20 teachers and staff. The school building was renovated from an old building. The classrooms and dormitories were dark and damp. The student activity areas were small and there were no books. There are only a few instruments, teaching tools and sports equipment. (1937-1949)

In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. Shortly after the second semester of Ningshi United Middle School started, Xuancheng was bombed by Japanese planes and the school was unable to hold classes. Principal Jiang Kangshi was from Jingde, so he decided to move the school to Jingdejiang Village. At the end of October that year, the school began to move. After the school moved to Jiangcun, it temporarily used the branch of Jiang's Ancestral Hall and Jiangcun Primary School as its school buildings. In the spring of the following year, classes started, and some of the original teachers and students also came to the school one after another.

Soon, Xuancheng and neighboring counties fell one after another, and a large number of young students fled to Jingxian, Jingde and Huizhou areas. As a result, a large number of out-of-school young people came to Jiangcun to study, so the number of students in the joint middle school increased. By the spring of 1939, the joint middle school added three high school classes and became a complete middle school. The number of junior high school classes has increased to thirteen, and there are more than 800 senior and junior high school students. After 1940, Jingxian, Ningguo, Nanling, and Xuancheng counties successively opened junior high schools. Therefore, the number of students in the junior high school of Ningxia Federation Middle School dropped sharply, but the number of high school classes increased. In 1943, there were seven classes in the high school and only six classes in the junior high school, with more than 550 students. In 1944, there were seven classes in the high school and five classes in the junior high school, with only about 470 students. By the spring of 1945, the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the high school had been reduced to five classes, and the junior high school had only three classes, with no more than 320 students. At that time, except for some faculty and staff who came to Jiangcun when the department moved to the school, most of the faculty and staff were hired locally, and the vast majority of them were from Jingde. After that, teachers from other places left one after another. The salary of teachers and staff in this school is meager, and their monthly income is very little except for food. They are unable to support their families, and their lives are very poor.

In the second year after Ningshi Lianli Middle School moved to Jingdejiang Village, three more branches were opened in Jingxian, Ningguo and Xuancheng. Zhou Zhizhen is the director of the Jingxian branch. The school is located in Pan Village near Maolin, Jingxian County, and the school building is borrowed from Pan's ancestral hall. The school is divided into four classes (two classes each for high school and junior high school), with more than 200 male and female students and 20 teaching staff. By 1943, the two high school classes at the Jingxian Branch were merged into the Jiangcun School Headquarters, and the junior high school classes were merged into the Jingxian Junior High School. The Xuancheng branch is located at Zhamenkou near Zhouwang Village in Xuancheng. The school buildings are borrowed from the teacher's house and Wusong'an. The director is Fang Shixiang. The Xuancheng branch has only three junior high school classes, with more than 130 students and about 10 faculty members. In 1942, the Xuancheng branch was changed to Xuancheng County Junior High School. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was moved to Xuancheng County. After liberation, it was merged into Xuancheng Junior High School of Anhui Province.

At the end of 1939, Jiang Kangshi appointed Peng Maochang, secretary of the school headquarters, to Ningguo County to prepare for the establishment of the Ningguo branch. The school site was located in Ningguodun, a mountainous area in the southeast of Ningguo County. The Ningguo branch is located in a mountainous area and has inconvenient external transportation. There are not many students enrolled, only about 60, and the classes are divided into two classes. One year later, due to the small number of students, it was declared closed and some students were transferred to the main campus.

In January 1946, Chen Zaiping, a native of Sanxi, Jingde, became the principal of Ningzhu Lianli Middle School (Jiang Kangshi had passed away) and decided to move the Lianzhong Middle School back to Xuancheng. At that time, the Confucius Temple in Xuancheng County, the former site of Lianhe Middle School, had been completely destroyed by artillery fire during the Anti-Japanese War. It was unable to rebuild, so it had to find public housing everywhere to use as a school building.

One day, I met Chen Zaiping on the road in Wuhu City (I was teaching at the former Provincial Wuhu Middle School at the time). Chen talked about the plan to move the Lianhe Middle School back to Xuancheng, but he was suffering from the lack of school buildings. I suggested that Chen go to Wanjun to have a look. Because Wanjun was a stronghold of the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army built several barracks near the Lion Mountain in the east of the town. Since the Japanese army did not rush to retreat, the damage to the houses was not great. With a little repair, they can be restored. Used as a school building. Moreover, Wanjun has convenient water and land transportation, making it easy for students to enroll. Chen accepted my suggestion and came to Wanjun to inspect the house the next day. He immediately went to Xuancheng to apply for relocation to Wanjun, and was approved. Soon, Lianzhong moved to Wanjun. During the summer vacation, some students from the former Ningli Federation Middle School came to the school, and some new students were added to the school. In September, the school started classes, with four high school classes and two junior high classes, with 220 students and about 20 teaching staff. Shortly after the opening of Lianhe Middle School, Chen Zaiping resigned as principal and Peng Maochang succeeded him. In 1948, Lianhe Middle School had four classes each, including senior high school and junior high school, with more than 330 students. Due to the lack of teachers and funds, most of the school's expenses are barely maintained by the income from student tuition and miscellaneous fees. On the eve of liberation, the school only opened three classes each for senior high school and junior high school. The total number of high school and junior high school students was only 181, and the number of teaching staff was reduced to more than 10 people.

Ningzhulian Middle School has a history of more than 10 years, but the school has always been unstable and sometimes even unsustainable, let alone development. (1949-1984)

Wanjun was liberated in April 1949, and most students did not leave school at that time. The People's Liberation Army cares about education and temporarily appointed Wang Qingxin, a former teacher at Lianhe Middle School, to take over the school and established a school board as the school's leadership body. In August 1949, the Xuancheng Commissioner's Office approved the renaming of Lianli Middle School to Wannan District Wanjun Middle School.

In the autumn of 1950, the high school department of Wanzhu Middle School was merged into Xuancheng Middle School. There were three junior high school classes with about 100 students, and Feng Jiyun was officially appointed as the principal. In 1951, the school had a veterinary class attached to it. A year later, the veterinary class was merged into Fengyang Veterinary School. In 1953, the then Wuhu County Junior High School (the school was located in Fangcun, Wuhu County) merged with three classes of the junior high school (two for third grade and one for first grade), and the attached school was ended in the summer of 1954. Beginner's class.

At this time, the school was gradually expanding to seven classes and more than 560 students. At the beginning of 1954, Principal Feng Jiyun transferred the provincial work. Xia Weimin succeeded as the principal, and later Xia Tiaolangxi Middle School was appointed as the principal. The successor principal was Yang Jiren. Soon after Yang came to Wanjun, he went to Beijing to study, and Cen Peifeng succeeded him as the principal.

In early 1956, the school was renamed Xuancheng No. 1 Junior High School in Anhui Province. One year later, the school was renamed Xuancheng Wanjun Junior High School. At this time, the school developed to eight classes, with more than 700 students.

In 1957, Yang Jiren was reinstated as the principal of Wan Middle School. In 1958, the Wuhu Prefectural Committee approved Wanjun Junior High School to be converted into a complete middle school, and the first and second classes of senior high school students would be admitted after the summer vacation. The school name was changed to Anhui Xuancheng Wanjun Middle School.

In the 10 years from the time of liberation to 1958, because the Communist Party of China attached great importance to cultural and educational undertakings, Wanjun Middle School, under the leadership of the Party, gradually consolidated and developed. Classes are increasing, the number of people in the school is increasing day by day, books, instruments and teaching equipment are also being purchased one after another, and the quality of teaching is gradually improving.

In 1962, Yang Jiren was transferred away, and secretary Chen Qi was temporarily in charge of academic affairs. In 1964, Wang Shichun was appointed as the principal of Wan Middle School. During the Cultural Revolution, Wanzhu Middle School was successively led by Lin Jie, Fang Jue, Wang Jingcheng and others. In the late period of the Cultural Revolution, Xuancheng County sent Wang Chao'an and Guo Yiqun to Wanzhong to take charge of academic affairs. In October 1969, Wang Chaoan divided the bay into four parts and went to the countryside to run schools. Chao Chao'an went to Huaqiao, Chen Wenxuan went to Zhaoqiao, Xu Yongsheng went to Hongyang, and Fang Jue and Wang Jingcheng were in charge of school affairs in Wanjun. All school assets of Wanzhuo Middle School were also divided into four. At this time, most of the teachers and students of Wanzhu Middle School went to the countryside, to Huaqiao, Zhaoqiao, Hongyang and other places.

In 1970, Wang Shichun was reinstated as the principal of Wanjun Middle School. In 1971, Xuancheng Bashe and Two Towns were placed under the jurisdiction of Wuhu County, Wanjun Town became Wuhu County Chengguan Town, and Wanjun Middle School was also changed to Wuhu County Middle School.

From 1972 to 1973 when he was on leave, the vice principal of Wuhu County Middle School was Wu Tongxiu. In the autumn of 1973, Wang Ying succeeded as the principal of Wuhu County Middle School. In 1978, the school changed its name to Wuhu County No. 1 Middle School. Since then, the school has developed rapidly. Especially in 1982, after the school became a key middle school in Wuhu City, the superiors increased funds, expanded the school building, enriched the library, instruments and other teaching equipment, and the school's appearance was greatly improved.

By 1983, the school had five grades of high school and junior high school, and 27 classes, including 11 classes in high school and 16 classes in junior high school. The number of students was more than 1,500, and the number of teachers and staff was 115. people (excluding 6 retired employees). Since Wang Ying was transferred in 1978, the successors to the county No. 1 Middle School principal were Huang Xun, Liang Jiaqing, Wang Xunzhi, and Wu Junqin.

Since the recruitment system was resumed in colleges and universities across the country in the summer of 1978, as of 1983 (there were no fresh high school graduates from No. 1 Middle School in the county in 1984), the number of fresh graduates from No. 1 Middle School every year The number of places to apply for admission to colleges and universities increases year by year. Only 3 people were admitted in 1978, 11 people were admitted in 1979, 24 people were admitted in 1980, 42 people were admitted in 1981, 79 people were admitted in 1982, and a larger number of 135 people were admitted in 1983.

Since 1981, the number of graduates admitted to key colleges and universities across the country has increased year by year. According to incomplete statistics, the national key universities admitted by previous high school graduates include: Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Science and Technology, Fudan, Tongji, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University, Political College of the People's Liberation Army, Changchun Institute of Geology, Northeastern Institute of Technology, East China Institute of Chemical Technology, East China Institute of Chemical Technology Textile Engineering College, Hefei University of Technology, East China Normal University and other famous colleges and universities across the country. Our students who enter colleges and universities study diligently and have better academic performance. Among them, Tao Ming, for example, after graduating from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was sent to France by the school to continue his studies. After graduating from Northeastern Institute of Technology, Yang Chun has been admitted to study in the UK. Students who graduated from other colleges and universities have achieved their due in their different jobs and contributed to the construction of the four modernizations of the motherland.

Starting from May 1984, No. 1 Middle School began to reform the school leadership system, implementing a revolutionary, younger, professional and knowledgeable cadre. After democratic selection, Xie Wenhui was appointed as the principal, and the vice principals were Wang Zhongyin, Hou Zhengpei.

Currently, No. 1 Middle School, high school and junior high school each have three grades, 24 classes, 1,290 students and 115 teaching staff.

The No. 1 Middle School currently has a construction area of ??more than 8,000 square meters, including a teaching building with a construction area of ??1,579.5 square meters and an experimental building that is about to be completed with a construction area of ??1,512 square meters.

The library has more than 18,500 volumes of various picture books, and a complete range of wall charts for teaching use. Various physical and chemical instruments can be used by 10 experimental groups at the same time. Among the more sophisticated instruments are: analytical balances (one), oscilloscopes (seven), microscopes (ten), movie machines (three), projection televisions (one), televisions (two), etc.

In terms of biological and physiological hygiene, there are various slices, specimens, and human models. Sports equipment is constantly being added. There are currently four basketball courts (one indoor lighted court), one football court, and one volleyball court each. The space for extracurricular activities is also very spacious. To sum up, the more than sixty-year history of Wuhu County No. 1 Middle School can obviously be divided into two periods. Before liberation, most of the schools that were the predecessors of No. 1 Middle School had poor facilities, short funds, and personnel changes. The principals often used the schools as a place to make money and arrange personal arrangements. During this period, the schools were moved three times, and the teachers and students were exhausted. Teachers' salaries are meager and it is difficult to teach with peace of mind. The school is in turmoil and the teaching order cannot be stable. On the eve of liberation, the situation became unsustainable.

In 1949, with the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wuhu County No. 1 Middle School gained a new lease of life. In the 35 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, No. 1 Middle School has continued to move forward. Especially since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the pace of development of No. 1 Middle School has accelerated and the quality of teaching has gradually improved.

Over the years, through long-term and unremitting efforts, the teachers and students of No. 1 Middle School have cultivated a number of talents in all aspects of building socialism for the motherland. For example, Cong Hanxiang (associate researcher of modern Chinese history at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and Jiang Chunze (who once held leadership positions at Renmin University of China) who are now working in the capital; Zheng Yinong (a famous painter and calligrapher in the province) who works in the province, and who studied at Wanjun University The famous novelist Lu Yanzhou and others.

At present, all the teachers and students of Wuhu County No. 1 Middle School are making greater efforts for the construction of the four modernizations of the motherland and the grand cause of realizing the modernization of the motherland as soon as possible!