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The Hunan Number One Teachers' Training School (Hunan diyi shifan xuexiao) was the school where Mao Zedong was to study from 1913-1918 and was the place where he was to meet his influential teacher, Yang Chang Qi, mother of Mao's first wife Yang Kaihui. Mao was to do fairly well at the school, despite his seeming hatred of intellectuals (whom he was later to classify as the stinking ninth category), even becoming student of the year in 1917. Mao returned to the city in the 1920s, and it was during this time, with his new wife, that he became both a teacher and principle at the school (1920-22). He was, however, harassed from the city for his political activities in 1923.
The school was destroyed by fire in 1938, during the troubles of the Civil War years and the Anti-Japanese War. Much of the school was carefully reconstructed, however, after the communist succession to power. Nowadays the school remains in parts active, while other sections have become a museum dedicated to Mao. Arrows guide visitors around these latter sections, through the dormitory where Mao slept, through study areas, halls and rooms displaying various communist history, from photos of the period, to documents, schoolbooks and newspaper cuttings (many portraying the international revolutionary events of the 1920s).
Address: Located a couple of kilometers south of the Xiangjiang Bridge, near the eastern banks of the Xiangjiang River (The spot is where Mao used to swim across the river) in Changsha City.
How to get there: Bus No.1 from the station or near the Xiangjiang Hotel, stops at the school.
Opening hours: Daily; 08:00-18:00.
Cost: RMB6.(Text from ctrip.com/Photo Source:crt.com)
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