Hong Kong Snapshot (90) – The Government Central School, Alma Mater of the founding father of modern China, which is now the creativity Center PMQ 香港隨拍 (90) – 中央書院，孫中山的母校，現在是創意中心元創坊

In this chapter of Hong Kong Snapshot, we keep looking for the footsteps of Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of modern China. Sun is one of the greatest Chinese in the history, He brought China to the modern society in the 1910s and changed China, changed the world. In the last chapter of Hong Kong Snapshot, I talked about the early years of Sun. You may take a look if you missed it: https://steemit.com/travel/@aaronli/hong-kong-snapshot-89-story-of-sun-yat-sen-founding-father-of-modern-china-starts-89

You may never think of a great man who changed China and the world, left so many footprints in HK, such a small bit of land. It’s all because of history. History brought a lot of Western technology, thoughts and ideas to HK, which changed Chinese. Without it, China may still remain the imperial system.

Education was the most important element for Sun to change China. He learnt from Western School during his young age. He learnt the most modern theory of the world and it let him know the fall behind of China. Last time, we introduced the former Diocesan School and Orphanage, the first school Sun studied in HK. And less than one year after, Sun moved to the Government Central School, our topic today.

這一期的香港隨拍，讓我們繼續尋找中國革命之父孫中山的足迹。孫中山是中國革命之父，他帶領著中國人走出帝制，讓中國步入現代社會，影響世界，在上一回的香港隨拍，我也介紹了孫中山的一點生平，大家可以查看：https://steemit.com/travel/@aaronli/hong-kong-snapshot-89-story-of-sun-yat-sen-founding-father-of-modern-china-starts-89

你從不會想到，改變中國、改變世界的一代偉人，竟然曾在彈丸之地香港留下這麼多足跡。這都是由於歷史的原因，把大量西方事物從英國帶到香港，影響一代的中國人，否則，當年中國是否會有現代革命，也是未知之數。

孫中山得以改變中國，靠的最重要的，就是教育，他早於幼年就接受西方現代教育，學習到世界最前衛的學術思想，才能認清中國的腐敗，從而改變中國。上一期介紹了孫先生來港讀的第一間學校拔萃書院，不過他讀了不夠一年就轉學了，轉到了這次的主角 – 中央書院。

The Government Central School was a very famous school in HK. It was found in 1862 which is the first governmental School of HK. All foreign students in HK studied in the school. In 1884, Sun moved to the Government Central School. At the same year, the school announced the campus expansion which was at PMG in Central today. Sun attended the stone-laying ceremony which was held by Sir George Bowen, Governor of HK. He spent 3 years studying in the school which changed him by the Western Education.

中央書院由創立至今都名氣極大，當年的中央書院於1862年創立，是港英政府在香港設立的第一所學校，大家可以想像到中央書院的威名所在，故此當時在中央書院就讀的學生來自世界各地。直到1884年，孫中山正式入讀到中央書院，同年，中央書院擴建校舍，新校舍設於現今中環元創坊一帶，並易名為Victoria College。孫中山當年正出席了新校舍的奠基儀式，並在這裡渡過了三年的讀書生涯，正是這三年的西方教育，改變了他的思想，改變了中國的進程。

Government Central School in 1897
1897年的中央書院
(photo source: Wikipedia)

The Government Central School was the highest level of Education in HK until 1910. In 1910, to prevent the invading of Japan in the future, the HK Government needed a lot of war related professional like engineering and medical which led to the establishment of the University of Hong Kong, while the Government Central School remained as a secondary school in HK.

中央書院一直保持著香港最高學府的地位，直到1910年，港英政府為防範未來日本入侵，急需與戰爭相關的學術人材，如工程、醫學等，於同時創立香港大學，中央書院由高等學府轉型為中學教育。

It’s the school in 1908
1908時是這樣
(photo source: Wikipedia)

After World War II, the Government Central School, now named of the Queen’s College, moved to Causeway Bay. It is now still one of the best secondary school of HK and output numbers of significant alumni who are influential to HK and China. They included: Tang Shaoyi, first Prime Minister of the Republic of China; Henry Fok, former Vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; Sir Robert Ho Tung, former General Manager of Jardine Matheson; Cheung Ng-sheung, world famous economist; Lai Man-wai, Fahter of Hong Kong Cinema; Lee Wai Tong, greatest Chinese footballer ever, etc.

二次大戰後，已易名為皇仁書院的中央書院，搬到了銅鑼灣的現址，至今仍是香港最傑出的中學，輸出了很多在香港及中國各界極具影響力的人士，包括中華民國第一任總理唐紹儀、全國政協副主席霍英東、怡和洋行總經理何東、經濟學家張五常、香港電影之父黎民偉、中國球王李惠堂等。

Entrance of current Queen’s College 現在的皇仁書院正門
(photo source: hk01.com)

A statue of Sun in the campus 校園內的孫中山像
(photo source: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjPhr22vOfaAhWFEbwKHacPD9YQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Flausoldier.blogspot.com%2F2017%2F03%2Fblog-post_7.html&psig=AOvVaw1rgY2rpGQvp-afo-m5q7tD&ust=1525365683290099)

Now, the old campus of the Government Central School becomes PMG, a new venue for arts and design in HK.

至今，中央書院舊址仍在，它曾被改建為警察宿舍，現已轉型為創意中心元創坊。

You can see studios, shops and offices for creative enterprises in PMQ. You can find shops with products of local brand. Tourists must love it. Maybe, when you visits the shops in PMG, you just step into the classroom that Sun was studying.

元創坊有很多特色小店，並吸引了不少本地創意工作者進駐，推出多種本地創作的產品，十分適合遊客參觀，或者，當你在元創坊遊覽的時候，就曾不自覺的走進了當年孫中山先生朗誦課本時的課室呢。

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