It is also the earliest university in modern China. Founded on July 3, 1998,/kloc-0 belongs to one of the "New Deal" of the 1898 Movement. After the Revolution of 1911, it was renamed Peking University.

1862, the Qing government established Shi Jing Wentong Museum in the Prime Minister's Office. Since then, the Qing government decided to establish a mathematics museum to study astronomical mathematics. The establishment of Wentong Pavilion is the beginning of China's establishment of a new school. Wentong Hall is the earliest public school established in China, and later merged into Shi Jing University Hall, which is the earliest part of Shi Jing University Hall.

Shi Jing University Hall is the name used by Peking University from 1898 to 19 12. Shi Jing University was the first national comprehensive university in China and the highest educational administrative organ in China at that time. After the Revolution of 1911, Shi Jing University Hall was renamed Peking University.

Peking University, founded in 1898, is the first national university in China and the first formally established university in the modern history of China. Its establishment marks the beginning of modern higher education in China.

Peking University, founded as the highest institution of higher learning in China, was originally the highest educational administrative organ in China at that time. It also has the dual functions of the highest institution of higher learning and the Ministry of Education in China.

Peking University inherited the academic system of imperial academy, the highest institution of higher learning in China for thousands of years, which is a modern continuation of the highest institution of higher learning in ancient China. Since its founding, Peking University has always enjoyed a high reputation and status, which can be described as "inheriting the orthodoxy of Imperial College and establishing a university ancestral family". After the Revolution of 1911 (19 12), Shi Jing University Hall was renamed "Peking University".

Shi Jing Wentong Museum is the main specimen of Westernization Education and an important part of Westernization Movement. Its purpose is to maintain the rule of the feudal landlord class by foreigners running schools. In essence, Wentong Museum is still a feudal school.

Shi Jing Wentong Museum is the earliest museum in China to adopt the class teaching system, and is known as the originator of modern new schools in China. There is also a printing factory in the museum to translate and print books on modern western science and technology, world history and foreign codes. The establishment of Shi Jing Wentong Museum is the first attempt to reform the old traditional education, and it has also trained a number of foreign language talents.