Mr. Li Chunhou, the clue provider, served as deputy secretary and vice president of Dezhou No.2 Middle School Party Committee before his retirement. He showed the reporter a memoir entitled "Bowen Middle School in Dexian County as I Know" in the local literature and history magazine "Dezhou Literature and History" edited by Dezhou (now Decheng District) Political Consultative Conference in the 1980s. Mr. Yu, the author of Memoirs, wrote in this article:
Mr. Lao She once gave a speech at the school and was welcomed by most teachers and students. On the one hand, because of his vivid and profound patriotism, everyone is very willing to listen. On the other hand, it is because of his novels (such as Two Horses and Lao Zhang's Philosophy). ), everyone has a certain admiration for him. During 1933, Mr. Lao She's most influential works, such as Crescent Moon, Camel Xiangzi, Four Generations under One roof, Teahouse, etc. , not yet born, but the works mentioned above, such as Two Horses and Lao Zhang's Philosophy, had great influence at that time, making Lao She a famous writer. In the year of his speech in Texas, he wrote the novel "A Tale of Cat City". The greatest feature of this novel is his dissatisfaction and disappointment with the social situation in China at that time, which obviously stems from his "deep love and responsibility" for the motherland.
Yu Xiansheng was born in 19 17 and was born in 1933 16. He should study in Bowen Middle School. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as editor-in-chief, president and party secretary of Railway Publishing House. Why did Lao She give a speech at Bowen Middle School?
Mr. Li Chunhou believes that Mr. Lao She's speech in Bowen Middle School may be for religious reasons or at the invitation of Wang Yuanxin, an educator who was then the principal of Bowen Middle School. Lao She is an associate professor at cheeloo university College of Literature. Cheeloo university was one of the thirteen missionary universities founded by foreigners in China at that time, which was jointly run by 14 Christian church organizations in the United States, Britain and Canada. Bowen Middle School in Texas happens to be a missionary school founded by American congregations. In addition, Lao She was baptized by Christianity on 1922, and worked as a document in the YMCA of Beijing on 1923 ... All these information together make people wonder whether Lao She's coming to Bowen Middle School has anything to do with religion.
In addition, before 1929, Bowen Middle School was a unique middle school in Dexian at that time. 1930, Bowen Middle School was officially registered in the Education Department of Shandong Province, becoming one of the only two private high schools approved by the government in Shandong Province at that time. 1933, Bowen Middle School won the second place in the provincial high school graduation examination sponsored by the Provincial Department of Education. Wang Yuanxin, an educator who was then the principal of Bowen Middle School in Texas, had the experience of studying in the United States. Mr. Li Chunhou speculated that Wang Yuanxin probably invited Mr. Lao She to give a speech at the school as an American student and the principal of an excellent missionary school in the province. Where is the nursing school in Texas?
Mr. Lao She mentioned in the article "Cecectomy" that "the head nurse graduated from a nursing school in Texas" and heard his speech. Where is the Texas Nursing School? Teacher Li Chunhou thinks this head nurse is a graduate of Bowen Middle School.
According to Li Qinghua's "A Brief History of Bowen Middle School in Dezhou, Shandong Province", in 19 16, when the missionary schools and hospitals moved from Pangzhuang to the southeast of Dezhou County (now in the area of Dezhou No.2 Middle School), they were divided into Ji Bo Women's Hospital, Weishi Men's Hospital, Bowen Middle School and Weishi Women's Middle School. According to Mr. Li Chunhou, at that time, some female students in the school were practicing in the missionary hospital, and there was no record of nursing school or health school in 1935 Dexian County annals, so he concluded that the head nurse mentioned by Lao She was a graduate of Bowen Middle School.