Former site of Liuyang Mathematics School

Former site of Liuyang Mathematics School

The former site of Liuyang arithmetic museum is located in Liuyang City, Changsha City, Hunan Province, which is Kuiwen Pavilion behind Liuyang Confucian temple. It is a subsidiary building of the Confucian temple. It was built in 1843, with a building area of about 200 square meters.

The former site of Liuyang arithmetical school is located in the west to the East, with brick and wood structure, two into five rooms, hard hilltop, small green tile roof, fire sealing gable and concrete floor. The front terrace of the house is open, with dozens of fragrant catalpa trees and many kinds of trees around. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Hunan Province.

School history

After the Sino Japanese War of 1895, China became a colony of foreign powers. At that time, a group of people with lofty ideals launched reform activities. In 1897, Tan Sitong, Tang Caichang, Ouyang Zhonghu and others set up the "new mathematics school", the first modern school in Hunan to learn western natural science knowledge, by virtue of kuiwenge.

Reasons for establishment

According to the revised regulations of Liuyang Suanshu School: "the original purpose of this school is to cultivate talents, not to seek food for all living beings. Mathematics is the primary foundation of Ge Zhi, that is to say, the cultivation of "extremely subtle attainments, life can not be exhausted." Its main educational ideas can be summarized as follows: the main purpose of the school of mathematics is to cultivate "extremely sophisticated" mathematics professionals. Students are required to be under the age of 30, with three years of schooling, majoring in mathematics, science, science and so on. In addition, there are various "Western books" on social science and natural science. There are newspapers and periodicals such as Shen Bao, Han Bao, Wan Guo Bao, etc. for students to "read foreign history, ancient and modern political affairs, negotiations between China and foreign countries, arithmetic, Gezhi books and newsprint" after class. In terms of teaching methods, Liuyang mathematics school is a mixture of old and new. In addition to adopting the old rules of official and college courses at that time, "every student sends out a diary every month, which is taught by his teacher, practiced by himself, read books from beginning to end, talked by his friends, and what he has learned and invented, as well as what he does besides learning." The new school rules are adopted. The school of mathematics also pays attention to the moral education of the students, but it is different from the feudal ethics education of the old style Academy. Tan Sitong stipulated in the "five articles of association" that "when you study in the library, you can see that you have a great personality, saying" respect your teachers, respect your profession and enjoy the masses ", and the rest of the details are not demanding." This is also the place where Liuyang arithmetic school is obviously different from the old style Academy. In 1898, the reform movement of 1898 failed and the school was forced to close. According to the book "China's science and technology groups", Hunan Liuyang mathematics society should be the first scientific and technological group in modern China. It was established by Tan Sitong, Tang Caichang and his teacher Ouyang Zhonghu. The next year, it was transformed into a mathematics school.

School atmosphere

Although Liuyang Suan Xue Guan was small in scale and only opened for one year, it played an important role in the spread of Hunan new learning and the rise and development of the reform movement. Since its establishment, many governments, prefectures and counties have imitated it. They have added arithmetic to their academic work, and the trend of studying arithmetic is gradually rising. As Tang Caichang said: "Hunan Province is the sprout of China, Liuyang is the sprout of Hunan Province, and arithmetic is the sprout of China.".

Current situation

”In the first half of 2004, Liuyang No.1 Middle School invested more than 400000 yuan in the design of the new arithmetic hall by the Research Office of ancient architecture of Hunan University. Now it has transformed the Tan Sitong Memorial Hall and the school history exhibition hall.

Address: behind Liuyang Confucian temple, guizhai Road, Liuyang City, Hunan Province

Longitude: 113.633568

Latitude: 28.142848