No.1 Middle School was formerly known as Dongshan Academy in the middle of Qing Dynasty. In the 24th year of Jiaqing (18 19), Tang Wenzao, a magistrate of a county, renovated the Han Temple and changed it into a place for children to study, called Dongshan Academy. In the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), Qiu, a patriot, a famous educator and poet, was appointed as the president of Dongshan Academy. Qiu presided over the academy for two years, vigorously advocated new learning and saved the country through education. He completely broke the old-style academy's mode of emphasizing only Confucian classics, introduced western learning in an all-round way, and advocated all-round development of morality, intelligence and physique, and the style of study was one of the new ones, which was the beginning of new learning in Chaoyang.

In the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), Dongshan Academy was transformed into the official Dongshan Higher Primary School with a new academic system.

In the fourth year of the Republic of China (19 15), Dongshan Senior Middle School was officially transformed into Chaoyang County Middle School, also known as Dongshan Middle School. First, Xiao, the principal of Ren Zhongxue, is a famous educator in Chaoyang. President Xiao wrote an inscription for the school.

At present, the tide, learn from others, cross the ocean and swallow thousands of countries;

Yangchun has reached the last year, and if it is cultivated in time, it is willing to be first-class in the world.

It can be described as the ambition of running a school. President Xiao is well-educated and rigorous in his studies, and requires students to be diligent and upward, and establish a new concept of Chaoyang education and a new style of study. At that time, the school had begun to take shape and became the highest institution in Chaoyang.

In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), Chaoyang Middle School (Dongshan Middle School) was transformed into a county rural normal school. In 24 years (1935), it was renamed as Chaoyang County Simple Normal School. From the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940) to the 30th year (194 1), the school buildings were bombed and demolished by Japanese planes, leaving them devastated and had to be temporarily closed. In the thirty-first year of the Republic of China (1942), the simple normal school and the first junior high school at the city and county level (formerly Wudu Middle School) merged into Chaoyang County-level Joint Middle School. As the county seat was occupied by the Japanese army, the school was located in Guiyu Renxiang, with a junior high school and a normal department. In the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1946), after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the county-level joint middle school moved back to the county seat and took classes in Chenghuang Temple, Sima Temple and Shikuilin Temple. The following year, it was renamed Chaoyang No.1 Middle School.

During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the motherland was in the midst of internal troubles and foreign invasion, and the No.1 Middle School also experienced disasters and vicissitudes. In this difficult situation, Chaoyang people do not forget to learn and cultivate talents; Teachers and students of No.1 Middle School are full of patriotic enthusiasm, advance wave after wave, explore the road of rejuvenating learning and saving the country, and devote themselves to the democratic revolution and the great struggle against warlords and aggression. Especially under the leadership of China, many enthusiastic young students took an active part in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement and the war of liberation, and made important contributions to the liberation of the people of China.

1949 10, Chaoyang county was liberated and the county people's government took over the first middle school. 1950, Chaoyang No.1 Middle School was renamed Chaoyang No.1 Middle School. 1952 the county people's government merged the private middle school originally founded by Mr. Chen in the temple into No.1 middle school. The establishment of New China has given Chaoyang No.1 Middle School a new life. 1953, the county people's government allocated special funds to build a large-scale new school building on the old school site. In August of the same year, with the approval of the Provincial Department of Education, No.1 Middle School was designated as a county key middle school. 1955, the general school moved into the new teaching building in Dongshan. Starting from the second half of 1956, No.1 Middle School stopped enrolling junior high school students and changed its name to Chaoyang Senior High School. During the seventeen years from 1950 to 1966, under the leadership of Chaoyang County Committee and County People's Government of the Communist Party of China, No.1 Middle School implemented the educational policy of all-round development of morality, intelligence and physique, showing a thriving atmosphere. Well-known figures in education have successively served as vice presidents of this error correction, and a group of teachers with rich teaching experience have gathered in No.1 Middle School, where there are many stars of wisdom and talents! The whole school, with Qi Xin's concerted efforts, is strict in running the school, strict in teaching, diligent in students and pragmatic, has gradually formed an excellent school spirit of "strictness, diligence, delicacy and practicality", with outstanding school achievements.

During the Cultural Revolution, No.1 Middle School was renamed Chaoyang Wuqi Middle School.

1978, No.1 Middle School restored the original name of No.1 Middle School in Chaoyang County, became a key middle school in the county, and was designated as one of the key middle schools in Shantou. The spring breeze of the motherland's reform and opening up has brought infinite vitality to No.1 Middle School. The school is determined to reform, blaze new trails, teachers are diligent and tireless, students are diligent and enterprising, and the school has achieved remarkable results. We have many excellent teachers at the national, provincial and municipal levels, and have achieved excellent results in college entrance examinations over the years. Since the resumption of college entrance examination in 1998, schools at all levels have admitted 0 students. 1993, Chaoyang withdrew from the county to set up a city, and No.1 Middle School was renamed Chaoyang No.1 Middle School. 1994 Chaoyang No.1 Middle School successfully passed the evaluation of first-class schools in Guangdong Province, and was named Guangdong Green School in 20001year, which indicates that the school's running conditions and the quality of education and teaching have reached a higher level. In recent years, the school has won the honorary title of advanced unit in the province, Shantou City and Chaoyang District for many times, and won numerous awards. Chairman the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Ren, Vice Governor Wang Pingshan, and the Provincial Department of Education visited the school successively and spoke highly of it.

In 2002, the administrative region of Shantou was adjusted, and Chaoyang was subordinate to Shantou City. In 2004, No.1 Middle School was renamed as Shantou Chaoyang No.1 Middle School, referred to as Chaoyang No.1 Middle School. Hu Zhanhang, the current principal.

Since the establishment of Chaoyang No.1 Middle School, it has trained a large number of talents for the country and the nation, with alumni all over the world, including Cai Dongshi, deputy secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Xiao Ge, a former senior cadre of the People's Liberation Army, famous painters, famous meteorologists, academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and famous entrepreneurs in Thailand. Alumni miss home and water, miss their alma mater, or travel thousands of miles in person; Or send a letter to teachers and students, cordial condolences; Or offer suggestions and donate money to build a school. Alumni such as Guang long li and Dian lived overseas and donated money to build Siyuan Library, Science Museum, Siyuan Building and Siyuan Teaching Building. , improved the conditions of running a school, made outstanding contributions, and won honor for our alma mater.