The Courtyard of the Happy Way, Western Migrants Concentration Camp in Weihsien

潍县乐道院是一块嵌入齐鲁文化腹地的西方文化布道之地，一个中西文化汇流的重要场域，在这里声名鹊起的广文大学，因教材、学制等效仿于美国哈佛大学，被誉称为“中国哈佛”。

诞生于此的华东大学，以“潍县摇篮”著称，为中国培养了优秀人才。 1902年，狄乐播利用“庚子赔款”、清政府赔款以及美国教会捐赠的所有资金重修并扩建了乐道院。山东潍方的乐道院拥有丰富的历史底蕴，通过了解乐道院的历史，可以反映时代精神的优秀传统文化传承，对于文化旅游、国际交流和传播人道主义精神而言，乐道院有着难以估量的人文价值。

Despite being known to the world as the Auschwitz in the east, the Courtyard of the Happy Way which once was the Western Migrants Concentration Camp is now maintained as a lighthouse in China’s eastern Shandong Province.

The Courtyard of the Happy Way was a preaching place for Western culture embedded in the heartland of the Qilu culture, as well as a platform for the communication between the Chinese and Western cultures. In 1904, Guangwen Xuetang (or Shandong Protestant University), the predecessor to today’s Shandong University, was built and known as the "Harvard of China" for its textbooks and academic system imitating Harvard University in the US. East China University (1948-1951), which was also born there, was renowned as the cradle of the "Revolution in Weihsien" and had trained outstanding talents for China.

In 1902, Robert McCheyne Mateer used the boxer refund, the Qing government compensation, and all the funds donated by the American churches to rebuild and expand the Courtyard.

With the history reflecting the traditional cultural inheritance of the spirit of the times, the Courtyard has inestimable humanistic value for cultural tourism, international exchanges, and dissemination of humanitarian values.

- Translated by Abigail Wu