Hunan Provincial Third Normal School was originally located in Yanjiaping on the east bank of the river in Zhuhui District, Hengyang City. Looking across the river, it is the majestic Wild Goose Pagoda. 195 1 moved to Huangbai Road, Yanfeng District, Hengyang City 165.
Hunan Third Division was established in 1904. Originally called "Hunan Lin 'an Road Normal School", it was changed to "Hunan Third Normal School" in 19 12. After the establishment of the third division, a group of young people who are interested in innovation soon gathered. Among them, Jiang Xianyun, Huang Jingyuan, Lei Jing 'an and others are the most prominent. Around the May 4th Movement, they organized progressive groups such as "Student Association" and "Heart Society" and began to study Marxism. Shortly after the birth of China * * *, Mao Zedong came to the Third Division several times to spread the revolutionary truth, develop Jiang Xianyun, join China * * *, and founded the Party's earliest grass-roots organization in southern Hunan-the branch of the Third Division of the Communist Party of China in Hunan in the winter of192/kloc-0. And other sponsors organized and established the "Southern Hunan Students' Union", where older revolutionaries such as Zhang, Huang Kecheng, Xia, Jiang Hua and Zhang Pinghua studied or engaged in revolutionary work.
Hunan Provincial Third Normal University was once called the highest institution of learning in southern Hunan. 1927, the school was forced to close. 1928 classes resumed in the spring, and it was renamed the Fifth Middle School of Hunan Province. 1934 changed to Hengyang Middle School. 1938 Due to bombing by Japanese planes, the school moved to Leiyang and moved to Changning the following year.
194 1 February, according to the order of establishing provincial government schools with the war, the normal department of Hengyang Middle School was changed to the second normal school of Hunan Province one by one, with Mr. Liu Qing, a professor at the National Hunan Normal School, as the principal. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/944, due to the fall of Changning, the Second Division was forced to move to Ningyuan. /kloc-moved to the blue mountain in the spring of 0/945, and cooperated with the third provincial normal school (Chenzhou normal school) and the eleventh provincial normal school, which was called Hunan United Normal School. 1August, 945, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Second Division broke away from the joint normal school and moved to Leiyang again. 1950 1, the school moved back to Hengyang from Leiyang and temporarily borrowed the original No.3 middle school teaching building to start. 195 1 year, the present permanent school site was established in Huangchaling.
1960, Hunan Provincial People's Government decided to restore the original name of Hunan Third Normal School. 1993, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the Third Division of Hunan merged with Hengyang Education College to form Hengyang Normal College.
The Third Division of Hunan Province is the main base for the revolutionary struggle of the Southern Hunan Students' Union and the place where Mao Zedong engaged in revolutionary activities in his early days. The branch of the Third Division of the Communist Party of China in Hunan, founded in 1922, is the earliest grass-roots party organization in southern Hunan. Under the training of the Party, hundreds of students and principals of the Third Normal University, such as Chen, Li, Deng Zhongxia, Xie, gave their precious lives for the revolution.
The former site of the Third Normal School of Hunan Province, 20 10, was announced by the Propaganda Department of Hengyang Municipal Committee as the patriotic education base of Hengyang City in May.