Beijing Normal University is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and it is a famous institution with the main features of teacher education, educational science and basic disciplines of arts and sciences. The school's predecessor was Shi Jing University Hall, which was founded in 1902. 1908 was renamed as Shi Jing Excellent Normal School, with independent organizational system. 19 12 was renamed Beijing Normal University. 1923, the school was renamed as Beijing Normal University, becoming the first normal university in the history of China. 193 1 year, 1952 Beiping Women's Normal University and Fu Jen Catholic University were successively merged into Beijing Normal University.
For more than 100 years, Beijing Normal University has always shared the same fate with the Chinese nation's progressive cause of striving for independence, freedom, democracy and prosperity, and played an important role in patriotic movements such as the May 4th Movement and the December 9th Movement. A large number of famous teachers and sages represented by Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Liang Qichao, Qian, Wu, Chen Yuan, Hou Wailu, Bai Shouyi, Hu Xiansu, Wang Maoren and Zhou Tingru once taught in Hong Wen. After more than a hundred years' development, the school adheres to the fine tradition of "patriotism and progress, honesty and simplicity, being realistic and innovative, and being a teacher by example" and the school motto of "learning to be a teacher and behaving as a teacher", and has formed the educational concept of "cultivating oneself in learning and helping the world for the people".