Zhejiang Wenzhou High School can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. Yirang Sun, a Chinese philologist scholar, consulted and discussed with some local officers on founding this school in 1902. The school was officially opened on 12 October 1902, and the construction of its first campus was finished in 1908. The location of the school has been changed several times during World War II. In the year of 1981, the :zh:浙江省教育厅|Education Department of Zhejiang evaluated Zhejiang Wenzhou High School as one of the best 18 high schools in Zhejiang Province. The school has changed its official name multiple times and eventually decided its name as "Zhejiang Wenzhou High School" in 1985. To further improve the study environment, Zhejiang Wenzhou High School moved its campus to Sanyang Wetland in the fall of 2002.
School Size
By 2010, Wenzhou High School had 48 classes in WenZhou, Zhejiang Province. The school had nearly 2,400 students and 227 staff members.
Facilities
By 2010, Wenzhou high school covers an area of 0.23 km2. The school buildings take a total of 76700 m2, including science museum, laboratory, gym, art building, student dormitory, student union, English island, and biological Island. At the same time, the campus also has a standard athletic field, indoor swimming pool, and tennis courts. Moreover, the campus owns the most advanced computer network system, multimedia broadcasting system, monitoring and control system, ID cardmanagement system, etc.
Campus culture
Argot
An Tui origins from the Wenzhounese. This argot is firstly used by a Chinese teacher of Zhejiang Wenzhou High School, referring to the phenomenon that students learn after bedtime. This action requires people to prepare a portable lamp because the school doesn't provide power during bedtime. Students would use light-shield curtains to prevent being found by housemasters. This argot means studying hard without letting others aware of the diligent.
The sports days, which often last for 3 days, contain track and field. According to tradition, every 3 classes of different grades would team up as a league to join the competition. Each league would design and buy the outfits weeks ahead of the sports day. Many leagues write their songs to cheer members up, and some even make their mascots and flags.
