On this day, 85 years ago, on March 5, 1940 (January 27, 1940 in the lunar calendar), educator Cai Yuanpei died of illness. Cai Yuanpei died of illness in Hong Kong. On March 5, 1940, Cai Yuanpei died of illness in Hong Kong. Cai Yuanpei, also known as Heqing, was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. He was a famous democratic revolutionary, educator and thinker in China. Cai Yuanpei studied hard classics in his early years, advocated Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, and achieved fame. He served in the Imperial Academy and Jinshi. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, he began to accept Western bourgeois political theories, advocated new learning, and sympathized with reform and reform. In 1902, China's earliest women's school, the Patriotic Women's School, was founded in Shanghai and served as its principal. In the same year, he founded the China Education Association with Zhang Binglin and others and served as president. In 1904, he established the Restoration Association in Shanghai with Gong Baoquan and others and served as president. In 1905, he was introduced by He Haiqiao in Shanghai to join the Alliance and join an assassination team to carry out anti-Qing activities. He studied in Germany in 1907. After the Revolution of 1911, he returned to China to serve as the chief of education of the Nanjing Provisional Government, advocating the adoption of the Western education system and the abolition of worshiping Confucius and reading scriptures. In 1912, dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai's arbitrary power, he resigned and left office. In 1917, he was appointed president of Peking University. He hired Chen Duxiu, editor-in-chief of "New Youth", as a liberal arts student, and hired "new" figures such as Li Dazhao, Hu Shi, and Qian Xuan to teach at Peking University. He adopted the school-running policy of "freedom of thought and inclusiveness", implemented the system of "professor governing the school", advocated academic democracy, and supported the New Cultural Movement. After the outbreak of the May 4th Movement, they actively supported students 'anti-imperialist and patriotic movement. After 1927, he served as president of the Kuomintang Nanjing Government College, president of the Academia Sinica and president of the Supervisory Institute. After the September 18th Incident, he actively advocated anti-Japanese aggression and agreed with the political proposition of the Communist Party of China to unite at home and jointly resist foreign aggression. In 1932, he, Soong Ching Ling, Lu Xun and others initiated the organization of the China Civil Rights Protection League and served as vice chairman. In the winter of 1937, after Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese army, Cai Yuanpei moved to Hong Kong until he died of illness. His posthumous work is included in the Complete Works of Cai Yuanpei. He died in Hong Kong on March 5, 1940. His works include Selected Works of Cai Yuanpei. Commemorating the 140th anniversary of Cai Yuanpei's birth. Appointment certificate of Cai Yuanpei when he became president of Peking University in 1917. Statue of Mr. Cai Yuanpei (Yanyuan, Peking University)