20世纪初,张伯苓为复兴中华而投身于教育救国事业,先后在天津创办了南开中学、南开大学、南开女中、南开小学,又在重庆创办了南开中学。1949年11月30日,重庆解放。张伯苓与学校董事会其他人员商议,将重庆南开中学无偿捐献给新生的人民政府。张伯苓告诉妻子王淑贞捐校之事时,妻子心痛地说:“南开学校可是你的命根呀,你为南开学校服务了一辈子,怎么舍得啊!”张伯苓说:“有啥舍不得的。南开学校是私立不是私有,捐给共产党政 At the beginning of the 20th century, Zhang Boling devoted himself to the cause of saving the country by rejuvenating China. He founded Nankai Middle School, Nankai University, Nankai Girls’ Middle School and Nankai Elementary School in Tianjin and Nankai Middle School in Chongqing successively. November 30, 1949, the liberation of Chongqing. Zhang Boling and other members of the school board to discuss, Chongqing Nankai Middle School donated to the newly renovated people’s government. Zhang Boling told his wife Wang Shuzhen donated school things, his wife said with a heartache: ”Nankai school, but your lifeblood ah, you serve Nankai school for a lifetime, how willing ah!" Zhang Boling said: Private schools are not private, donated to the communist party