Taipei Yanping Senior High School (Chinese: 臺北市私立延平高級中學; pinyin: Táiběi Shì Sīlì Yánpíng Gāojí Zhōngxúe), also shortened to Yanping High School, is located in Daan District, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Soon after the end of World War II and the Japanese colonial period, Zhu Zhao-yang (朱昭陽), who was serving in Ōkura-shō, the present Ministry of Finance of Japan, and lawyer Song Chin-ying (宋進英) returned to Taiwan in the hope of improving the standard of education in their homeland.
The two planned to establish a "university" and — on the suggestion of the invited chair, Lin Hsien-tang — named the institution "Yan Ping", a dedication to the famous general of the Ming Dynasty, Koxinga.
The opening ceremony was held on the campus of Kainan Commercial High School on October 10, 1946, and was lit by only one small electric bulb.
Zhu addressed the 1100 students under the moonlight, saying: "In this chaotic and dismal time, we have to offer this society a slight ray of hope, and we have to be like the glittering light of the luminous firefly found only in a very harsh region of the world.
In 1979 the school established the "direct-promoted class", which allowed students to study there for a full 6 years without any additional entry exam.