The former site of Tianjin Guanli Middle School is the current Lingdangge Middle School, located at No. 1 Lingdangge Street, Hongqiao District, Tianjin (now Mustard Garden Road). Bell Pavilion is a Sutra Pavilion in Jigu Temple. It was built in the seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1579). It is an ancient brick and wood structure building. It is named after the roof rafters around the roof top of the flying eaves and protruding eaves and the rafters are arranged with fine copper bells. In the 20th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1894), due to a fire from a nearby timber factory, the bell pavilion was burned down. Jigu Temple and its nearby Haihui Temple were merged and were called Jigu Academy. In the 27th year of the Guangxu period (1901), based on Jigu Academy, Tianjin Ordinary School was founded and named Tianjin Guanli Academy (also known as Tianjin Guanli Middle School). With the changes of history, it has been renamed many times. After the liberation, it was , Tianjin No. 3 Middle School . After the third middle school moved out in 1960, Lingdangge Middle School officially moved in.
After the May Fourth Movement, the school's students' exercise was very active. Advocating the establishment of student unions, conclusion of patriotic conventions, establishment of speech teams, organizing patriotic societies, compiling and printing "Awakening" newspapers, compiling and performing "Patriotic Tide" plays, and cooperating with the business strike, has effectively promoted the development of the patriotic and anti-imperialist struggles in all walks of life in Tianjin and has become one of the schools with a strong influence in the Tianjin student movement. Under the influence of the new thoughts, the students of the school Yu Fangzhou and An Xingsheng organized the Xinsheng Society in October 1919, and under the guidance of Li Dazhao, they studied and studied Marxism. On April 1, 1920, the magazine "New Life" was founded, introducing new Marxist thoughts and discussing the establishment of Communist Party organizations in Tianjin. It was praised by society as a publication with "full socialist color", which played a positive role in uniting and progressing young people, spreading truth, and arousing the people.
11 On March 9, 2024, the Tianjin Local Executive Committee of the China Socialist Youth League was established. Yu Fangzhou, a graduate student, established a Youth League branch on the school. In addition, the Youth League Committee also held a plenary meeting at the school. In 1926, during the time when the National Revolutionary Army entered Tianjin, various mass groups under the leadership of the Tianjin Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China transferred to public activities, and the work of universities, middle schools and schools was also carried out, and the school established a party branch. During the Anti-Japanese War, the school was also an important base for the underground party activities in Tianjin. In order to seek truth and a way out, young students secretly read progressive books and magazines. For a time, various forms of reading clubs emerged inside and outside the school like mushrooms after a rain. Among them, the more important ones were the Spartan clubs with Wang Wenyuan and as members, the reading clubs with Zheng Keshu and et al. and the Liming reading clubs with Guo Hua and others as members. They secretly develop members in secret, and the content of the activities is mainly to read progressive books and magazines, discuss domestic and international situations, report and exchange ideas, carry out social investigations, and conduct physical exercise. It is precisely under the influence of these three progressive reading clubs and the help and education of underground party organizations that most of the students who have participated in the reading club later participated in progressive organizations such as the Chinese National Liberation Pioneer, the Chinese Youth Anti-Japanese Pioneer, and the Tianjin Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Federation, making their own contributions to the cause of national liberation, and some even sacrificed their precious lives. In January 1946, the school’s underground party organization successfully led all teachers and students to carry out the anti-"instrumental review" struggle. On the eve of Tianjin's liberation, the school's underground party organization actively carried out publicity and school protection struggles in accordance with the Party's urban work policy, and cooperated with the People's Liberation Army to bring this long-standing school to the people intact.
