Yunnan Military Academy, which was founded nearly 100 years ago, still has its site, and was announced as a national key cultural relic protection unit in 1988. This is the second floor building of a beige brick-wood courtyard house located on Chenghuapu land on the west bank of Cuihu, a famous scenic spot in the center of Kunming. It consists of four buildings, east, west, south and north, which are symmetrically connected and equipped with corridors, and each end of the building is equipped with an arch. Covering area 1390 m2. There is also a big classroom (auditorium) and an arsenal in the southwest of the main building. There is a reading practice building in the middle of the South Building, which is about15m high and13m wide. There used to be more than two big playgrounds in front of the building, but now they have been replaced by high-rise buildings such as Yunnan Science and Technology Museum. However, after a hundred years of wind and rain, the old quadrangle still exists. The four buildings with a length of120m and a width of10m not only add a bit of antique, but also highlight the heroic spirit of Wujiangtang. ?
Yunnan Military Academy is a famous military academy in modern China, which was founded in 1909. Together with 1906' s Beiyang Wujiangtang (Tianjin) and 1908' s Northeast Wujiangtang (Fengtian), they are also called the three major clubs in Wujiang.
At that time, the new army was compiled in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was planned to compile 36 towns (divisions) throughout the country, of which the 19 town was built in Yunnan. In order to meet the needs of this new situation, the Qing government made a unified regulation: "All provinces should set up martial arts schools within the provincial walls for active servicemen to learn martial arts." 1908 (in the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu), the nurse Yungui and the governor of Fantai, Yunnan, Shen Bingjing gave instructions to the Qing court to prepare for the establishment of the Yunnan Military Academy. The school site is located in Kunming, the training ground of Mu Guogong in Ming Dynasty, covering an area of more than 70,000 square meters. 1909 (Xuantongyuan Year) On August 15, Yunnan Military Academy officially opened, with Gordon as the first general manager (principal). At the beginning of the school, there were four military departments, namely, infantry, riding, artillery and engineering, and there were three classes, A, B and C. The courses were modeled after the Japanese NCO School and divided into two categories: disciplines and technical subjects. Jiangwutang hired a group of graduates from domestic ordnance schools and China students from Japanese NCO School to teach. By the time of the Revolution of 1911, Jiangwutang had delivered more than 600 middle and junior officers to the Yunnan New Army.
After the Revolution of 1911, General Cai E, Commander-in-Chief of Yunnan, ordered the Yunnan Military Academy to be changed into the Yunnan Army Martial Arts School. The Yunnan Army, which was formed with the teachers and students of Jiangwutang in Yunnan as the backbone, has made outstanding achievements in the war to protect the country and France, so its reputation is increasing day by day and its reputation is far-reaching. Many aspiring young people from neighboring provinces and even neighboring countries have come to Kunming to apply for the exam. According to incomplete statistics, from 1 1 to 17, more than 200 young people from Korea and Vietnam came to study abroad.
1930, Long Yun established the Yunnan Army Training Corps in Wujiang School, headed by Zi Long. In addition to infantry, cavalry, artillery and engineers, three regional teams have been added to train professional officers. The teaching group will go through three stages. So far, Yunnan Military Academy and Wujiang School have held 22 sessions, including various training teams and training courses held in the school, which have trained about 9,000 officers and non-commissioned officers. ?
1938, the school was renamed "the fifth branch" according to the series. Nine branch schools are headed by Chiang Kai-shek, with the principal in charge, and the director responsibility system is implemented specifically. Long Yun is in charge of Kunming Branch. According to the series, whampoa 1 1, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and nearly 8,000 trainees were trained. After that, in September, 1945, the fifth branch was ordered to close. ?
Yunnan Military Academy is not only close to Cuihu Lake, a bright pearl in the center of Kunming, but also because of its tree-lined, clear lake, elegant environment and fragrant flowers, it has become an outstanding place of geomantic omen. Yunnan Military Academy and Cuihu are in harmony, making it a scenic spot full of humanistic colors.