自贡盐商捐资办学述略

摘要

During the course of Chinese Educational modernization, merchants played a very important role. From the 1860s(the Xianfeng and Tongzhi periods) to the 1940s (the Anti-Japanese War period), Zigong merchants made a fortune from the two movements of“Sichuan salt sold in Chu (Hunan and Hubei)”. These salt merchants donated money for free education and founded private schools of new-style. They acted as directors and introduced new teaching content and management. It promoted the modernization of local education, accelerated the transformation of education from old to new, and advanced the development of local education.%在中国教育近代化的历程中，商人起到了非常重要的作用。从19世纪50—70年代咸同年间到20世纪40年代抗日战争时期，两次“川盐济楚”造就了大批显赫一时、富甲一方的自贡盐商。这些发迹起家的盐商，捐献资本，创办义学和私学，开办新学，担任校董，引进新的教学内容和管理方式，推动地方教育的近代化，推进传统教育向新式教育的转变，有力地促进了地方教育事业的发展。