Nanyang Middle School was founded in the 22nd year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1896). It is the earliest modern middle school run by China people. /kloc-In the middle of the 9th century, under the slogan of "Abolish the Imperial Examination, Promote the School and Cultivate Talents", Wang Weitai (word) opened a school near Xiuye Bridge in Songjiang. 1896, the school moved to Wangjia Temple (provincial garden) in Dadongmen, Shanghai, and was named Yucai Bookstore as a teacher. Courses include Chinese, English, mathematics, chemistry, history and geography. The establishment of these courses doomed it to be the first private "Western learning" school founded by China people.

1900, Wang Peisun was ordered by his uncle Wang Weitai to take over the educational materials. After Wang Peisun took over the education school, he went to Japan to inspect education. Shortly after returning to China, he changed the name of the school to Nanyang Middle School, and the school name was 1904. 1907, the school bought 6 mu of land at Rihui Bridge on Longhua Road (now located at No.225, Zhongshan South Second Road). 18 mu of land was purchased in 2008 for new school buildings.

19 13 Add physical and chemical laboratory. Although it can be seen from an old photo of the school location taken around 1920, Nanyang Middle School is not very eye-catching and the surrounding environment is relatively simple. The fence is made of shovel fence.

But by 1926, with the completion of the magnificent and elegant Nanyang Middle School Library, people immediately took notice of this school and it became famous. The school library's collection of 65,438+10,000 books is even more remarkable. 1930, in order to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the school, the Alumni Association donated a Nanyang Middle School Science and Technology Museum, which contains physics, chemistry and biology laboratories and terraced classrooms.

65438-0956, Nanyang Middle School was changed from a private school to a public school.