131 years ago today, on January 28, 1894 (December 22, 1893 lunar calendar), the governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong, set up Wuchang Self-improvement School. On January 28, 1894, the governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong, set up Wuchang Self-improvement School. This is a government-run new school, with the main purpose of cultivating talents and foreign language translators who are familiar with Westernization. Dialect (foreign language), Gezhi, arithmetic, and business four fasts. In 1897, the special arithmetic school was merged into the West Lake Academy, and Gezhi and business Xizhai were discontinued. Only the dialect school was held to learn English, French, German, and Russian languages, and the study period was 5 years.