The "top" teacher in Chengdu's history!

In order to run a good school, Weng Weng gave enrollers several preferential conditions, such as issuing living expenses, reducing and exempting family corvee labor, etc., and on the other hand, he also allowed students to participate in social practice to cultivate their skills and methods for handling official duties.

Wen Weng's educational practice has achieved remarkable results. Not only has it cultivated a large number of talents, but it also made "Shu studies comparable to Qi and Lu". Therefore, Ban Gu said: "To this day, Bashu is so elegant, and Weng's transformation is the transformation of Weng."

▲Wen Weng Shishi teaches scriptures and lectures Picture source: Sichuan Provincial Museum

Yan Junping

Busi preaches the scriptures, farming and reading to enlighten the wisdom

Yan Junping, whose real name was Zhuang Zun, was from Chengdu in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty. When Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote the "Book of Han", he avoided the taboo of Emperor Ming of Han, Liu Zhuang, and changed his name to Yan Junping. He is both an Yi scholar and an educator.

▲Portrait of Yan Junping Picture source: Pizhou Shizhi

He once opened a divination store in the downtown city of Chengdu, engaged in professional divination and taught "Laozi". In the old days, fortune-telling was not entirely metaphysics, but also a way to implement education. Mr. Yan guides people to be kind by telling fortunes.

In the late Western Han Dynasty, the social atmosphere gradually became corrupt. Some people say that when Yan Junping was fifty, he saw that the current situation was so chaotic that he lived in seclusion in Hengshan, Pizhou, and taught and wrote books.

Yan Junping was in Hengshan, while studying the "Book of Changes", "Laozi" and "Zhuangzi", while accepting disciples to preach. During this period, he completed important Taoist works such as "The Bone Marrow of the Book of Changes" and "Laozi Zhigui", which had a profound impact on later generations such as Wang Bi, Cheng Xuanying, and Taoism of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty. "Laozi Zhigui" is even known as the sect of Taoist books.

▲ Yan Junping Memorial Hall Picture source: Pizhou Shizhi

Among Yan Junping's many students, the best one is Yang Xiong. He is known as the "Confucius of the Han Dynasty" in China, not only knowledgeable, but also combines philosophers, thinkers, astronomers, writers, historians, etc., but also has made great achievements in every subject.

Yang Xiong gathered all his life to write the "Taixuan Sutra", which was directly inherited from Yan Junping's professor. Yang Xiong also respects this teacher very much and compared him to "Heshi Bi" and "Suihouzhu" is a rare master in the world.

▲Yangxiong Sculpture Picture source: Pidu Shizhi

Wei Liweng

Heshan gathers talents, and innovates Neo-Confucianism

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Pujiang scholar Wei Leweng pushed education in Shu to a new height. Wei Liweng, whose courtesy name was Huafu and his pseudonym was Heshan. He was a famous educator, Neo-Confucianist, politician, and calligrapher in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was from Pujiang, Qiongzhou (now Pujiang, Sichuan).

Heshan Academy, founded in 1210, is known as "the only chain academy in Chinese history".

▲Liaoweng Temple Picture source: Zuimei Qionglai

Wei Liaoweng taught twice at Heshan Academy in Pujiang for more than ten years, including four or five years of personal lectures.

When Wei Liweng returned home for the first time, he brought back a large number of Zhu Xi's works that were not yet in Shu and published them, so that Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which represented the highest level of Song studies at that time, could be widely spread in Shu.

He not only taught himself, but also invited famous scholars at that time to teach, and the teaching effect was very significant. The students he taught took the provincial examination, "Ten got eight". Heshan Academy focuses on academic innovation and most of the disciples trained become the backbone of Neo-Confucianism, thus forming a situation of "Shu Studies Resurrection". Wei Liweng's educational achievements were also praised by the imperial book "Heshan Academy" by Song Lizong.

In addition, Heshan Academy has been established for a long time and has taught many disciples, which has enabled "Shu people to fully understand the study of righteousness and principles", which has greatly improved the popularity of Sichuan's cultural education. In long-term teaching and academic activities, the Heshan School represented by Wei Leweng was formed.

▲Heshan Academy in the picture of Pujiang County, Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty Picture source: Pujiang County Cultural Relics Protection and Management Office

Wang Kaiyun

Respecting the classics and innovation, and learning to reap the glory

In the late Qing Dynasty, the great scholar Wang Kaiyun of Hunan should serve as the head of Zunjing Academy, which set off an innovative trend of education in Shu. During his tenure as the mountain chief, Zunjing Academy changed the style and academic style of the old-style academy. Eight-legged essays were banned from the academy, and focused on studying traditional classics. All "classics and history primary schools, geographic geography and territorial steps, arithmetic economy, poetry and ancient essays are learned."

▲"WangmenArt—Wang Kaiyun and his disciples" Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition Picture source: New Hunan Client

Wang Kaiyun mainly focused on the theory of modern literature, advocated the theory of practical use, and taught the principle of respecting and understanding the foundation. This not only allowed students to establish moral integrity, respect integrity and shame, study hard, and write their experiences, but also allowed students to care about current affairs, discuss state affairs, comment on people, and express their own opinions freely.

▲Sichuan Provincial TownGate of Higher School (Zunjing Academy) Picture source: "Rulbs of the Records of Zunjing Academy in Sichuan Province"

"In fact, there has never been a shortage of the figure of cultivating apricots in history. From the foundation of Shishi Academy and the establishment of Heshan Academy, from laying the foundation of education in official schools to the bursting of innovative vitality in private schools, countless pioneers of education have made indelible contributions to the history of education in Chengdu on this land.

They may not have names that have been recorded in history, but they have figures explaining repeatedly in front of the three-foot podium and the focus of correcting their studies under the oil lamp. It is them who use silent efforts to pass on knowledge across time and space, and turn the concept of "teaching without distinction" into real actions, injecting the simplest and most tenacious power into Chengdu's cultural genes.

Xiao Zhi is here, I wish all teachers a happy holiday, thank you for your hard work!