The teaching quality of Liangjiang Normal School

Sanjiang and Liangjiang have been open for eight years, and their students’ test scores rank among the best among colleges and universities in the south of the Yangtze River. Metallurgist Zhou Ren, Chinese painting masters Hu Xiaoshi and Chen Zhongfan, and calligrapher and painter Lu Fengzi are all Liangjiang excellent students. Talents cultivated by normal schools. The famous traditional Chinese painting master Zhang Daqian was also a student of Li Ruiqing. Graduates of Sanjiang and Liangjiang can generally obtain the qualifications of middle school or junior normal teachers. Their vision, ambition, education and ability are well received in the academic circles and society.

In July 1909 and June 1910, students from Liangjiang Normal University participated in Jiangsu’s “Provincial School Achievement Works Exhibition” and the “First Nanyang Entrepreneurship Meeting” respectively. The displays of Liangjiang Normal School, such as physical and chemical experiment reports, physical instruments, animal and plant specimens, handicrafts and art works, are the most eye-catching part, and "viewers all admire them".

Another example is the Shanghai "Times" report in early 1910: "There are more than 300 undergraduate students of Liangjiang Normal School who have completed five years of Level 2 and will be graduating...but the various schools are busy Most of the students were former accelerated students. As soon as they came out of this class, they were definitely ahead of their peers, so the old normal students were extremely frightened."

There are many well-educated students among the graduates of Sanjiang and Liangjiang. A distinguished scholar and a master of his own family. Among them are:

Hu Xiaoshi (1888~1962), named Guangwei, also named Xiaoshi, also known as Qianyin and Xialu. In September 1906, he passed the preparatory course of Liangjiang Excellent Normal School. The next year, he transferred to the Agricultural and Natural History Department and graduated in 1909. Chinese studies, poetry, and calligraphy were all under the guidance of Li Ruiqing, and he was profound in the study of ancient Chinese characters’ sound and rhyme interpretation, Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures, and epigraphy and painting. He successively served as professor, department head, and dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Beijing Women's Higher Normal School, Jinling University, National Southeast University, and National Central University. After 1949, he served as dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Director of the Library of Nanjing University.

Lv Fengzi (1888~1959), also known as Lu Jun, also known as Fengchi. People from Danyang, Jiangsu. In January 1910, he graduated from Liangjiang Excellent Normal School, majoring in drawing and handwriting. Good at painting, epigraphy, sculpture, calligraphy and poetry. He is the founder of modern art education in China. Founded Danyang Zhengze Girls' Elementary School, which later developed into Zhengze Art College, and founded Nanjing Art College and served as principal. He has successively served as a professor at Beijing Women's Higher Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeast University, and National Central University.

Chen Zhongfan (1888~1982), whose original name was Zhong Fan and Zongfan, and whose courtesy name was Jueyun. Jiangsu Jianhu people. His uncle Chen Yushu was once promoted to Sanjiang Normal School. In February 1910, he was admitted to the public department of Liangjiang Excellent Normal School. After graduation, he was admitted to the Department of Philosophy of Peking University. After 1918, he successively served as director of the Chinese Department of Beijing Women's Normal School in Beijing, director of the Chinese Department of National Southeast University, professor and dean of the Chinese Department of Guangdong University and Jinan University, professor of the Chinese Department of Jinling University, and after 1949, professor of the Chinese Department of Nanjing University . He has profound attainments in the fields of Zhuzi Qunjing, bibliography, and literary history of pre-Qin and Han Dynasties.

Xiong Hui (1892~1974), nicknamed Zhuoru and later Zhuru. A native of Fengcheng, Jiangxi. He received court training at a young age and was determined to study. At the age of eleven, he finished reading the Four Books and Five Classics and the Tongjian Collection, and also studied English and mathematics with a teacher. He was admitted to the county high school and spent one year as a graduate. With excellent results, he was promoted to the prefectural Hongdu Middle School. He transferred to the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Liangjiang Normal University and was promoted to the Department of Chinese Language and Foreign Languages ??(1910) after graduation. Xiong was already rich in new ideas when he was young. When he was in Liangjiang Normal University, he participated in the Communist Party Association and secretly studied the art of war. He was arrested and imprisoned several times. Fortunately, he was saved by the protection of supervisor Li Ruiqing. Later, he successively served as the director of the Jiangxi Provincial Compulsory Education Preparatory Office, a member of the Jiangxi Social Education Committee, and the director of the Finance and Economics Department of the Provincial Legislative School. He founded Jiansheng Middle School in Jiangxi, and his teachings spread throughout the country and abroad, with students all over the world.