Yang Fan’s seclusive engagement in private school education started from Yang’s family transition from a wealthy family to a culturally-rich family. It was he that played an important role in such a transition of Yang’s family in Jing Chuan to become a imperial family. In Li’s study, he stood between Chi Hu Mind study and CHEN ZHU’s Li study, and he was expert in the YiJing. In history study, he participated in the revision of local chronicles and made positive researches.Yang Fan had a talent of writing poems, and he was one of the famous poets in Ningbo in the early Ming Dynasty. By studying Yang Fan we could know the educational methods, lifestyle and academic activities of private school teacher in the early Ming Dynasty.
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QIAN Maowei. An Educational Miracle Made by a Countryside Private School Teacher: a Study into the Educational and Academic Activities of Yang Fan in Ming Dynasty. Journal of Zhejing Gongshang University, 2014, (1): 3-10.