The Original Campus Site of Lize Girls’ School is located at Nanhao Lane, Xinzhen Street, Tongli Town, Wujiang District, neighboring the Retreat & Reflection Garden on the west. In 2013, it was listed together with the Retreat & Reflection Garden as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level by the State Council of China.
The school was founded in the second month of the thirty-second year of the Reign of Emperor Guangxu (1906) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). At the beginning, the school was opened inside the Retreat & Reflection Garden, as the founder of the School, Ren Chuanxin, a Tongli local, is the second owner of the garden. In 1964, it was changed into Tongli Town Elementary School.
The Original Campus Site of Lize Girls’ School includes mainly the school gate, the teaching building, and the monument of national humiliation. The teaching building, a two-story seven-compartment building, was built in the autumn of the third year of the Reign of Emperor Xuantong(1911) in the Qing Dynasty, and the third story was added In the fifth year (1916) of the Republic of China(1911-1949). The total height of the building is 15.9 meter, width 23.95, and depth 8.8 meters. The building is of brick and wooden structure, with hip roof and brick walls. In the ground floor an arched colonnade gate was opened. A balcony was built along the entire length of the second floor. At that time, Lize Girls’ School was the only architecture in Tongli town that blends Chinese and western architectural styles. The monument of national humiliation is in front of the teaching building, which was erected by the teachers and students in the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915) during their protest against Yuan Shikai’ signing of the Twenty-One Demands with the Empire of Japan. After the outbreak of the Songhu Resistant Battle against Japanese Invaders (1932), an anonymous patriot buried the tablet in the ground. Unearthed in 1982, the monument was reestablished in front of the teaching building, and a pavilion was built to shelter it. The monument, tablet-shaped, is 1.75 meters high. On the middle of the front side it is inscribed “the ninth day of the fifth lunar month marks the national humiliation ", with the upper right corner "the fourth year of the Republic of China", and the lower left corner “staff and students of Lize Girls’ School ". Engraved on the back is a 12-line 438-word inscription, which was composed by Qian Jibo, a famous traditional sinology scholar, and hand written by Wu Zhiying, a famous woman calligrapher in China and also friend of Qiu Jin (1875－1907, a national heroine who was executed after a failed uprising against the Qing dynasty).
