Today is the 114th "March 8th" International Women's Day. You are delicate and delicate in life. You are decisive and capable on the sports field. You choose to tear off the label to show the undefined "her power". This belongs to female friends. During this festival, Xiaoti will

Today is the 114th International Women's Day

You are delicate and delicate in life

You are decisive and capable at work

When you step onto the sports field, you choose to tear off the label

Showing the undefined "her power"

In this festival that belongs to female friends,

Xiaoti will take everyone to trace the female power hidden in

Shanghai Sports Museum.

"The Complete Works of Wu Youru Paintings"

In the Shanghai Sports Museum, there is a set of "The Complete Works of Wu Youru Paintings". . Wu Youru was a painter of folk sentiments in the late Qing Dynasty. In his works, the women in the boudoir changed their timid and conformist temperament, bringing a lot of fresh interest to life. In the first exhibition hall of the Shanghai Sports Museum, a work titled "Bright Eyes and Bright Wrists" is printed on the opened painting page. "Mingmu" refers to bright eyes, and "Haowu" refers to white wrists. This romantic name refers to the scene in the painting where several women wearing Qing Dynasty costumes are playing billiards.

From the painting in "The Complete Works of Wu Youru Illustrated" - "Bright Eyes and Bright Wrists"

it can be seen that the movements of the batting woman are relatively professional and she seems to have received careful guidance. Judging from the environment and furnishings, it is in the activity room of a wealthy family. It can be speculated that by the end of the 19th century at the latest, billiards had spread from Western expatriates to the upper class Chinese society. The advancement and openness of the Magic City can be traced back to that time.

They are open, enterprising and independent

Shanghai, as the epitome of the entire modern history of China and the urbanization process, has symbolic significance in many aspects. The emergence of women's sports is an important part of China's modern sports industry. Modern women's sports gradually emerged and developed under the trend of "sports save the country" and along with women's pursuit of equal rights. In the mid-to-late 19th century, with the opening of Shanghai as a port, women in Shanghai also accepted the modern consciousness of openness, enterprising, and independence earlier. Influenced by these advanced ideas, their self-consciousness began to sprout.

In 1897, Jing Yuanshan, then director of the Shanghai Telegraph Bureau, organized the "Jingzheng Girls' School" in Shanghai. The Jingzheng Girls' School was the first self-run girls' school in China. It actively responded to the call for the establishment of women's physical education courses and included gymnastics. The course served as a model for later Chinese self-run girls’ schools.

html From 0 to 1906, there were 7 self-owned girls' schools in Shanghai, namely Jingzheng Girls' School (1898), Patriotic Girls' School (1902), Wuben Girls' School (1902), and Chengdong Girls' School (1903). ), Chongde Girls’ School (1904), Qixiu Girls’ High School (1905), Minli Girls’ High School (1906). Without exception, these female students have carried out various physical education activities. For example, the founding charter of Wuben Girls' School stipulates that female students should be given free rein to incorporate gymnastics into the teaching system. The junior and senior girls' primary schools of Wuben Girls' School have established formal subjects such as self-cultivation, Chinese language, arithmetic, and gymnastics. The purpose is "to make the body lively, the spirit happy, and the necessary habits for sports." The school also organized an autumn sports meeting in November 1905. The competitions included rope skipping, sword arrows, body correction, tennis, dancing, walking, rope gymnastics, etc. In 1908, Xu Yibing, Wang Jilu, Xu Fulin and others who returned to China after studying in Japan established the Chinese Women's Gymnastics School in Shanghai. The school took physical education and pedagogy as its main teaching courses and the training of physical education teachers as its main content. It lasted until 1937. The school has also trained many talents for the sports industry in Shanghai and even China, and Lu Lihua is one of the best.

They are diligent, perseverant and dedicated

In 1900, Lu Lihua was born in Baihe Town, Qingpu County, into a merchant family that dealt in southern goods. He was strong-willed, diligent and smart since he was a child. Her father made an exception and sent her to a private school disguised as a man to receive education. As a child, Lu Lihua cherished this opportunity and achieved excellent results. Gradually, in her young mind, the idea of ​​"I want to do anything that boys can do" sprouted in her young mind. In 1922, for the sake of her passionate dream, Lu Lihua, who had just graduated from school two years ago, spent all her savings to found the Liangjiang Women's Sports Normal School, the earliest women's sports school in China, and served as its principal.

The homepage of the 484th issue of "Shanghai Pictorial" in 1929 published a recent photo of Ms. Lu Lihua, the principal of Liangjiang Women's Sports Normal School.

She clearly stated in the purpose of the school: "The establishment of Liangjiang Women's Sports Normal School was for the liberation of Chinese women; through The school's physical education aims to strengthen women's bodies, train women's sports teachers, and train the backbone for women's sports in China."

January 24, 1923 "Declaration" Liangjiang Women's Sports Normal School Enrollment Notice

The school is "committed to Chinese women With the purpose of "liberating and strengthening women's physiques, cultivating women's sports teachers, and training the backbone of women's sports in China", we have hired many famous scholars and experts to teach at the school, strictly manage students, and focus on teaching that combines theoretical knowledge with practice. , adopt appropriate teaching methods according to the characteristics of girls. In 1924, the school established China’s first women’s football team; in 1925, the school established China’s first women’s basketball team; in 1931, Lu Lihua led the Liangjiang women’s basketball team to visit abroad, becoming China’s first women’s basketball team to compete abroad. Team. The women's basketball team played a total of 14 games with Japan's Kyoto and North Korea's Pyongyang and other places, and won 10 games, causing a sensation in Northeast Asia. At that time, Huang Jiping, a reporter for the Shanghai "Shenbao" team, once wrote a poem to express his feelings: "Ping went to Vietnam to visit Japan, and the biography of the army reported the victory. I am glad to see that women have many extraordinary ambitions, and they have temporarily become famous in China."

Liangjiang women's basketball team won the All-Shanghai title A group photo of the championship

A group photo of the Liangjiang Women's Sports Normal School's football team published in "Picture Times" in 1926

From 1922 to 1950, Liangjiang Women's Sports Normal School was held for 22 times, with a total of more than 1,000 graduates. Graduates have been hired to teach in schools across the country, and some have also gone to some overseas Chinese schools in Nanyang Islands and other places. Many of them still work conscientiously in sports positions after the founding of New China. As one of the most influential women's professional sports teaching institutions in Shanghai in modern times, the school has also left a mark in the history of Chinese women and the history of modern Chinese sports.

Main entrance of Jiangwan Campus of Liangjiang Women's Sports Normal School

Confident, loving, independent and strong

Xiaoti wishes everyone who loves sports a happy holiday

May you become more comfortable and free in sports!

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Text: Shanghai Sports Picture: Shanghai Sports Editor: Wu Yulun Editor: Shen Lei