陶行知故居

陶行知故居

陶行知故居“逸少齋”

陶行知故居“逸少齋”在合川古圣寺側，三間土墻草房（今改建為小青瓦房），是其在育才學校的舊居，樸實無華。其屋前有荷花池，他命名曰“周子池”，取北宋理學祖師周敦頤（曾任合州判官）《愛蓮說》：“出污泥而不染，濯清漣而不妖”之寓意，以教育學生要像荷花那樣做人。周恩來、鄧穎超、馮玉祥等先后曾來此小住，陶行知為此寫了一首《荷葉舞歌》編成舞蹈表演給他們觀賞。

“Yishaozhai”, the former residence of Tao Xingzhi

“Yishaozhai”, the former residence of Tao Xingzhi is beside the Gusheng Temple of Hechuan. There are three thatched cottage built by cob wall (now they are rebuilt to small tile-roofed houses), and they were old home of Yucai School, simple and unadorned. In front of the house, there is a lotus pond, and he named it “Zhouzi pond”, taking the implied meaning of the sentences “coming out of the dirty mud unsoiled, washing from the clear water unpolluted” of Ode to the Lotus Flower, written by Zhou Dunyi(who was once the assistant to the chief local official of Hezhou State), the founder of neo-confucianism of Northern Song Dynasty to teach students to be person like lotus. Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao, Feng Yuxiang and other people had once come here to settle down for a short time, and Tao Xingzhi had written a song called the Heye Wuge to make choreography to show people.