鸦片战争时期社学与三元里抗英斗争

The Anti-British Struggle Held by Social Education Schools and Sanyuanli Community During the Period of the Opium War

社学作为元明清以来的地方启蒙教育机构,自元代以来便在南方地区广有设立。鸦片战争期间,在三元里民众的抗英斗争中,社学起到了联络、训练、宣传和鼓动的作用。社学职能由地方启蒙教育场所转变为抗英斗争的领导机构,客观上激励了民众反帝反封的信心与决心。

As a place of initiation education in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the social education schools had been widely established in the south since the Yuan Dynasty. During the Opium War, in Sanyuanli people’s fight against Britain, these schools played a role in liaison, training, propaganda and agitation. The function of social education shifted from a local place of enlightenment and education into a leading institution in the struggle against British imperialism, which objectively stimulated the people’s confidence and determination in opposing imperialism and feudalism.