| Mingde High School | |
| Motto Translation: | Hardship and sincerity |
| Location: | Tianxin District, Changsha, Hunan, China |
| Postcode: | 410004 |
| Coordinates: | 28.1219°N 112.965°W |
| Pushpin Map: | China Hunan |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250px |
| Type: | Comprehensive Public High School |
| Founders: | Hu Yuantan |
| Principal: | Xu Lin |
| Grades: | 10 to 12 |
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| Gender: | Coed |
| Campus Type: | Urban |
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| Affiliation: | Changsha Municipal Bureau of Education |
Mingde High School is a public coeducational high school in Tianxin District of Changsha, Hunan, China.[1]
The name was formulated based on a sentence from Great Learning, one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism.[2]
Mingde High School traces its history back to the former "Mingde School", founded by educater Hu Yuantan in 1903, during late Qing dynasty.[3]
In 1932, Chiang Kai-shek inspected the school and took pictures with teachers and students, inscribing four Chinese characters "".
In February 1938, due to the Second Sino-Japanese War, the school moved to Zeng's Ancestral Temple in Mount Xia at the junction of Hengshan, Xiangxiang and Xiangtan.
In 1941, the school was renamed "Hunan Provincial Mingde Middle School" .
In November 1944, when the Japanese invaded Hunan, Hu Shaokui, then dean of education at Mingde Middle School, led the teachers and students to move to Lantian County.
On March 16, 1946, the school moved back to Taianli Campus in Changsha and was officially reopened.
After the establishment of the Communist State in 1949, the school was renamed Changsha No. 3 Middle School, New Changsha No. 3 Middle School and Power Machine No. 57 Middle School .
In 1983, the school was renamed "Changsha Mingde High School".
In August 2015, Principal Fan Qiuming (Chinese: 范秋明) was placed under investigation for corruption, bribery and unfair relationships with several women by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Communist Party's internal disciplinary body.[4] [5] [6]
| Period | English title | Chinese title | Term | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mingde School (Mingde Xuetang) | Hu Yuantan | Chinese: 胡元倓 | 1903 - 1941 | |
| Mingde School (Mingde Xuexiao) | Xie Zhen | Chinese: 谢真 | 1919 - 1947 | Acting |
| He Jingwei | Chinese: 何经渭 | 1938 - 1942 | Acting | |
| Zhou Anhan | Chinese: 周安汉 | 1937 | Acting | |
| Hu Shaokui | Chinese: 胡少奎 | 1944 - 1949 | Acting | |
| Hunan Provincial Mingde Middle School | Cao Zanhua | Chinese: 曹赞华 | 1950 - 1951 | Acting |
| Hu Mai | Chinese: 胡迈 | 1941 - 1960 | ||
| Changsha No. 3 Middle School | Zhou Yuesen | Chinese: 周岳森 | 1952 - 1953 | Acting |
| Luo Sande | Chinese: 罗三德 | 1954 - 1958 | Acting | |
| Yang Da | Chinese: 杨达 | 1959 - 1960 | Acting | |
| He Fujie | Chinese: 何辅喈 | 1960 - 1961 | ||
| Zhu Yaoyi | Chinese: 朱耀一 | 1961 - 1969 | ||
| New Changsha No. 3 Middle School | Li Donghai | Chinese: 李东海 | 1968 - 1969 | |
| Power Machine No. 57 Middle School | Huang Ying | Chinese: 黄英 | 1969 - 1971 | |
| Changsha No. 3 Middle School | Zhang Zhaoli | Chinese: 张朝立 | 1972 - 1979 | |
| Liu Yutian | Chinese: 刘雨田 | 1979 - 1983 | ||
| Changsha Mingde High School | Liu Ruiqing | Chinese: 刘瑞清 | 1983 - 1985 | |
| Zhang Tiejun | Chinese: 章铁军 | 1986 - 2000 | ||
| Lai Xuexian | Chinese: 赖学显 | 2000 - 2006 | ||
| Fan Qiuming | Chinese: 范秋明 | 2000 - 2015 | ||
| Xu Lin | 2015 - present |