The predecessor of Hunan University is Yuelu Academy, one of the four major academies in Song Dynasty, which was founded in the ninth year of Kaibao in Song Taizu (AD 976). After the changes of the times in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has always maintained the continuity of culture and education. 1903 Yuelu Academy was transformed into Hunan Higher Education, and 1926 was named Hunan University. 1937 became one of more than ten national universities of the Ministry of Education of the National Government. For more than a thousand years, it has been known as the "Millennium University" because of its continuous learning pulse and endless string songs. Zhang Wei, a famous philosopher in the Southern Song Dynasty, presided over the Academy, which formed a famous Huxiang School in the academic history of China and established a fine tradition of patriotism and pragmatism. From Yuelu Academy to Hunan University, this sacred place for educating people has cultivated countless talents who have applied themselves to the world. Wang Fuzhi, an outstanding materialist thinker, was the first reformist enlightenment thinker who advocated learning from the West and put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners"; Zuo, the first national hero who established a navy and devoted himself to defending and developing Xinjiang; Guo Songtao, the first foreign minister of China; Cai E, the leader of the old democratic revolution; Cai Hesen, Deng Zhongxia and Xie Juezai, proletarian revolutionaries; and Zhang Fengkeng, the first China to reach the South Pole. Comrade Mao Zedong, the founding leader, has stayed in Yuelu Academy several times to explore the truth of saving the country and the people, and he is a man of lofty ideals. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Central People's Government appointed Li Da, a famous philosopher and educator, as the first president of Hunan University after liberation, and President Mao Zedong personally wrote the name of the university. 1953, adjustment of state departments. Hunan University was renamed Central South Institute of Architecture and Engineering and Hunan Institute of Engineering, and its original name was restored at 1959. Since 1963 was affiliated to the Ministry of Machinery Industry, 1978 was listed as a national key university, and 1998 entered the ranks of "21/project" national project construction in June, and was transformed from a public institution affiliated to the former Ministry of Machinery Industry to a university directly under the Ministry of Education. In 2000, Hunan University and Hunan University of Finance and Economics merged in the adjustment of the national university layout structure. 200 1, the school entered the ranks of "985 Project" and became a key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Hunan Province. In 2002, the former Hunan Computer College was merged into Hunan University.