Tai Shi Senior High School (former Taishan Normal School) is located in Taishan City, Guangdong Province, Taicheng Huannan, is a long history, the spirit of the famous school. Her predecessor for the Ningyang Academy, built in the Ming Dynasty Wanli forty years, is the earliest school in Taishan; ranked Taishan ancient four major academies (Ningyang Academy, Ruiying Academy, Wenhai Academy, Qinxi Academy) of the first. The original site of Ningyang Academy was in the west of Taicheng City, on the side of Wanghou Shrine (i.e., the south of the present Commercial City), and then it was moved to Zhufeng Mountain in 1882 because of the low-lying terrain, frequent flooding, and lack of a quiet environment. At that time, "the two hipped and three halls of Ningyang Seowon were the highest school in Xinning County", and in 1913, due to the change of the county name, Ningyang Seowon was renamed as Taishan Normal School. After the establishment of Taishan Normal School, the scale of the school has been expanding with the support of the community. 1922, the Alumni Pavilion was built on the top of Zhufeng Mountain.
In 1926, a two-story, four-room Western-style classroom was built; a three-story medical room was also built during the same period.
In 1928, the Taishan Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong gave strong support, through the chairman of the board of directors, Mr. Lee Sing Qu, the Chamber of Commerce donated HK$10,000, the use of demolition of the wall bricks to build additional teaching building; teaching building building building height of two floors, with 8 classrooms and fan-shaped office 2, was completed in 1929 (the building is now named as the school's ancestral building).
In 1930, a water supply system was constructed and a generator was purchased to produce electricity and lighting.
In 1932, the sports field was expanded and a gymnasium was built; in 1937, the school sent a team to the U.S. to raise funds for the construction of the school; in 1947, the cafeteria was built, and the east gate road was constructed. After decades of hard work, Taishan Normal School gradually developed and expanded.
After the founding of New China in 1949, the People's Government attached great importance to education, especially to the training of teachers, year by year to allocate funds for repairs and construction of additional school buildings, Taishan Normal School gradually into a period of rapid development.
In 1959, the county government allocated funds for the construction of nine new classrooms, drawing rooms, music rooms and four dormitories.
In 1972, the middle seat of Ningyang Academy was converted into a 720-seat auditorium, which was the largest school auditorium in Taishan at that time, and in 1973, the office, library and reading room were converted.
Between 1981 and 1983, the back of the Ninyang Seowon was converted into a two-story experimental building, and a new three-story dormitory building was built to the north of the Ninyang Seowon.
In 1986, the demolition of the original gymnasium was built into a three-story office building.
In 1987, alumni donated funds to build a three-story alumni building, which was the earliest alumni building in Taishan.
In 1987, the National Working Conference on Secondary Teacher Training Schools put forward the requirement of standardizing the conditions of running secondary schools. Taishan municipal government attaches great importance to this, determined to run the teacher into the province's first-class teacher training school as the goal, the municipal government spent more than 6 million yuan, more than 150 acres of land, the new Taishan Special Education Center, the original school for the deaf and mute to Taishan teacher use; at the same time, according to the principle of repairing the old, as the old, allocated funds for the maintenance of endangered Ninyang Academy, nearly 200 years of history of the old academy to shine again and become an important cultural relics of Taishan. It has become an important cultural relic of Taishan. In order to promote the implementation of the strategy of "science and technology city", the municipal government in addition to funding, but also actively mobilize overseas Chinese at home and abroad, alumni *** with the efforts to donate funds to build schools, from 1989 to 1998, 10 years, Hong Kong folks Mr. Wong Ping Lai (later hired as honorary principal) donated nearly 10.2 million Hong Kong dollars, has built the "Wong Chuan Ching teaching building", and "Wong Chuan Ching teaching building". "Mr. Wong Chuan Ching Teaching Building, Mr. Wong Ping Lai Assembly Hall, and Mr. Wong Yuen Ming Library; and Mr. Lee Pak Wing, a Hong Kong resident, donated HK$4.58 million to build the following buildings Juiying Building", "Zhou Peiqing Building", "Teachers' Activity Center"; Hong Kong Taishan Chamber of Commerce donated HK$4.5 million to build the "Art Building". "; Hong Kong folks "five friends (Ng Shun Tak, Wong Ho Chuan, Wong Ping Li, Wong Chien Hang, Wong Chien Li) donated HK$ 3 million to build the "Science and Technology Building"; New Zealand folks Mr. Yu Dale donated HK$ 800,000 to build the "Yu Dale Building" and the "Teachers' Activity Center". Mr. Yu Daler, a New Zealand alumnus, donated HK$800,000 to build the "Yu Daler Building" and install a computer room; Mr. Zhu Zhengxian, a Hong Kong alumnus, donated HK$250,000 to build the "Zhu Zhengxian Gymnasium". In addition, the People's Government of Guangdong Province subsidized RMB 580,000 yuan for the purchase of equipment. In 1996, the school passed the acceptance of the standardization of the operating conditions of Guangdong Province Normal Schools, in which the construction of school buildings, electronic teaching and music teaching equipments reached the first-class level in the province, and it became a teacher training school with greater influence in the province at that time. 1998, the school won the Second Prize of Excellent Achievement of Overseas Chinese Funding for Schools in Guangdong Province. The school was awarded the second prize.
Taishan Normal School since its establishment, training tens of thousands of qualified elementary school teachers, Taishan and the surrounding areas have made great contributions to school education. At the end of the 1990s, the state explicitly required that the qualifications of elementary school teachers need to reach a university college degree or above, and Guangdong Province put forward the goal of building a strong education province, and required that senior high school education be gradually popularized in all parts of the country. In order to adapt to the current situation and the needs of local education development, the school was converted into a general high school in 2000 and renamed as "Taishi Senior High School", and began to stop enrolling middle school teachers to run high schools. The school has 50 general high school classes, the vision of 60 teaching classes, Taishan City is the largest of the three key high school.
In all levels of government and the community's concern and support, after several generations of hard work, Taishan teachers continue to develop, the original school buildings are in the vicinity of the bead mountain, is now extended to the neighboring paper crane mountain, Pengfeng mountain, the area from the original less than 40 acres to expand to nearly 80 acres. Today, the school has a new look, monuments and modern architecture, Chinese and Western style wall, distinctive style, beautiful school buildings spread between the three mountains, or under the mountain, or the foothills, or the mountains, high and low staggered, according to the mountains with green, reflected in the flowers and trees; campus green trees surrounded by four seasons of the drops of green and red, flowers and fruits, the environment, the air is fresh and beautiful, can be described as a garden-style school.
Tai Shi Senior High School is moving towards becoming a first-class environment, first-class equipment, first-class teachers, first-class quality with distinctive features of the national demonstrative general high school direction strides forward.
The school has a scholarship fund of nearly one million yuan, and there are also "Mr. and Mrs. Huang Bingli Scholarship and Bursary" "Mr. Chen Zhongwei Bursary" "Mr. Hu Jingpu Bursary" and other scholarships and bursaries. There are also "Mr. and Mrs. Huang Bingli Scholarship and Bursary", "Mr. Chen Zhongwei Bursary" and "Mr. Hu Jingpu Bursary".