Sichuan Chengdu Shishi High School
high school in China
Chengdu Shishi High School (simplified Chinese: 成都石室中学; : traditional Chinese: 成都石室中學, romanised: Chéngdū Shíshì Zhōngxué), also known as Wenweng Shishi (文翁石室), is a public secondary school in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Tracing its origins back to the "Shijun Junxue" (School of Shu Commandery) founded by Governor Wen Weng during the Han dynasty (c. 141 BC), it is widely recognized as the first local government-run school in China and the world. It is also one of the few schools globally to have remained on the same site for over 2,160 years.
History
Between the years 143 and 141 BC, Wén Wēng (文翁), the Western Han dynasty governor of Shu Commandery (modern Sichuan), established the first Chinese public school, Shujun Junxue (Shu Commandery Academy, 蜀郡郡学). The great Han dynasty scholar Sima Xiangru studied at the school.
During the Eastern Han dynasty, the school was devastated by fire. It was rebuilt in 199 AD, and continued through China's imperial dynasties as Yizhou Zhouxue (益州州学, Yizhou Prefecture School), Chengdu Fuxue (Chengdu Prefecture Academy, 成都府学), and other names. Shu Shi Jing (a form of Thirteen Classics, literally Shu Carved Stone of Classics, 蜀石经) was completed in Chengdu Fuxue in Northern Song, after more than 230 years of intermittent carving. In the 17th century, as the Ming dynasty collapsed, the rebel force of Zhang Xianzhong (1606–1647) devastated Sichuan and the school was destroyed.
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