What exactly is the Ancient Song Book Garden?

The Guge Shuyuan Coffee Hotel and Club near Zhongshan Road is a microcosm of old Xiamen. This century-old villa has accumulated too much culture and history, and its successive owners are A scholar and scholar, the earliest owner was also the founder of Datong Primary School, Mr. Yang Jingwen (1878-1961), courtesy name Zihui, from Xiamen. He became a scholar at the age of 10 and graduated from the Fujian Normal School in his early years. He is good at calligraphy and poetry.

In the 32nd year of Guangxu, when the imperial examinations were abolished and schools were established in the late Qing Dynasty, Yang Jingwen and others initiated the establishment of the "Datong Second Class Primary School". The school was located in Laicuocheng (where the ancient Geshu Garden is now located) ), the school building is a courtyard-style three-story villa.

In the third year of Xuantong (1911), under the supervision of Lin Bingzhang, the grandson of Lin Zexu, the Xiamen Detoxification Society was established.

After the "May 4th" Movement, Datong Primary School set the educational goal of "cultivating people who are loyal and patriotic, cultivate people who are self-taught and self-disciplined, and cultivate people who are physically strong", established various research groups, and established student autonomy. The society's reputation is growing.

After the fall of Xiamen in 1938, the Japanese and puppet regime attempted to implement enslavement education in schools. However, Mr. Yang Jingwen led teachers and students to share the same hatred and fear of strong enemies, and tenaciously spread the traditional culture and morality of the Chinese nation. The campus was full of people Haoran is upright.

In 1949, Xiamen was liberated, and Datong Primary School entered the historical development stage of New China.

In 1950, Mr. Yang Jingwen served as a member of the Standing Committee of the first Xiamen CPPCC and a member of the Culture and History Committee.

The "Cultural Revolution" occurred in 1966, and Datong Primary School also experienced ups and downs. Mr. Yang Jingwen's posthumous works, "Yiyuan Collection" and "Yiyuan Poetry Draft", were also lost in the "Ten Years of Disaster".

Datong Primary School has gone through a century-long journey. In this ancient and civilized land, it has accumulated a century of educational civilization and is full of the footprints of many students' growth.

Today, the villa was in its twilight years. After the renovation by Mr. Yang Minmou, the descendant of Mr. Yang Jingwen, the inheritor of the world intangible cultural heritage project "Dazuigu" and the vice chairman of the Xiamen Quyi Artists Association, the villa has become more beautiful. Still the same, and named it "Gu Ge Shu Yuan", which means nostalgic for that period of singing--

Friends who have watched "Crazy Racing" starring Huang Bo will definitely be interested in Xiamen The unique "corridor-style" arcade building is impressive, so take a photo at the clubhouse, which shows the history and origin, civilization and progress of the Ancient Songs and Books Garden----