Travel Notes丨Red Schools in Shanxi Province

Shanxi Provincial No. 1 Middle School later became Taiyuan No. 5 Middle School, which was founded in 1906. Formerly known as Shanxi Middle School.

Shanxi Provincial National Normal School was founded in 1919, later than Shanxi Provincial No. 1 Middle School. It is a normal school founded by Yan Xishan that specializes in training primary school teachers in the province.

Both schools are the cradle of Shanxi revolution.

The Provincial No. 1 Middle School has Gao Junyu activities, and the Provincial National Normal University has Peng Zhen and Bo Yibo activities. Gao Junyu is much older and his influence was in the early days of the founding of the CCP. Peng Zhen and Bo Yibo were later comers. They had great influence on the First, Second Civil Revolutionary War and The Anti-Japanese WarIn the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Communist Party of China carried out revolutionary activities in Shanxi and established anti-Japanese national unity. It had a great influence on the front and mobilizing the masses to carry out anti-Japanese and national salvation. Therefore, there are more red stories in the Provincial National Normal University.

Shanxi's first anti-Japanese armed force, the Shanxi Youth Anti-Enemy Team, was also born here.

This is a normal school that specializes in training primary school teachers across the province. It consists of three parts: the school headquarters, the stadium, and the farm. The entire campus covers an area of 200,000 square meters and has more than 290 classrooms, offices, dormitories, and internship workshops. Courses such as Chinese language, mathematics, history, military training, and factory internship are offered. It was the best-run secondary vocational school in Taiyuan City at that time and had the largest scale .