“北有南开,南有明德”,解放前人们这样赞扬全国闻名的两所中学。其中的“明德学堂”,便是今日长沙市三中的前身。它创办于1903年,是我省第一所私立中学。刘少奇、周小舟同志以及著名专家、学者、教授如王炳南、欧阳予倩、李振翩等,都曾在这里读过书。现在,该校作为一所省属重点中学,其规模已相当可观。 “There is Nankai in the north and Matilda in the south.” Before the liberation, people praised two high schools well-known throughout the country. One of the “Mingde School” is the predecessor of the three in Changsha today. It was founded in 1903, is the first private high school in our province. Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Zhou and other famous experts, academics and professors such as Wang Bingnan, Ouyang Yuqian and Li Zhenpe have read books here. Now, the school as a provincial key middle school, the scale has been considerable.