1938, educator Mr. Liao Shicheng founded the National Teachers College in Lantian, Hunan Province, which is the predecessor of independent teachers colleges in various provinces. At the beginning of his tenure, Mr. Liao thought that "teachers are the lifeblood of a school" and that "the ultimate success of a school depends on teachers, no matter how clear the purpose is, how systematic the curriculum is and how good the study is, if the teachers are unqualified, success is still uncertain", so "it is necessary to do it". At that time, the Japanese army had entered Yueyang and Hunan Province was in danger, but Mr. Wang was unmoved and tried his best to invite talents from all directions to teach at the school. Mr. Qian Jibo was invited to Lantian, Wuxi, as the head of the Chinese Department of National Normal University. Mr. Qian is concerned about the country and the people, and deeply feels that the sages of Hunan Province "helped the country by running the world" and benefited from it. So he wrote the book "One Hundred Years of Hunan Style", which begins with the cloud:

"Hunan is a province, with great rivers in the north, thin Wuling in the south, Guizhou and Sichuan in the west, and countries blocked on all sides. It has little land and water, and many mountains. Mountains overlap, beaches and rivers are steep, making it difficult for ships and cars to pass. Stubborn rocks are hard, geology is solid, and human nature is mostly stubborn. Often blocked by old customs, often not in contact with the humanities of the Central Plains. Restraint is also self-created, which can be different from the characters in the Central Plains to be independent. Outstanding people, great virtues, where are the past times before me? Behind me, where are the future generations? Great knowledge and loneliness, including making the present serve the past, regardless of the idea of independence and freedom, have a strong and unyielding ambition. Zhan's knowledge of ancient studies is profound, and he can find his own way without being trapped by ancient studies. Righteousness is based on Shu Qun, and the line must be self-sufficient, so as to create a generation of ethos and cover geography to make it natural. "

In the book, "Push up the two sages of Zhou Dunyi and Wang Fu, and end their interest without asking for preparation." People don't stick to one pattern. The greatest one is to learn from Wu, and the second one is to learn from the past, regardless of whether the work is right or wrong, and learn from the darkness. It is expensive to be thoughtful and know what it means. If you use it, you will help the world and people. You don't need to know that you are poor. The sage inside and the king outside, in Xiang's view, is it just a letter to learn from the scriptures, and it is also self-defeating. If the place where I study can restore the style of study, make this emblem beautiful, build a large scale, open up the atmosphere, and have nothing to do with predecessors, it will be fortunate to be a private school, which will be fortunate and beneficial to the country. "Seventeen Xiangxue schools: Tang Peng, Wei Yuan, Li, Hu Linyi, Zeng Guofan, Zuo, Liu Rong, Guo Songtao, Yan Zhenheng, Zou, Luo, Tan Sitong, Cai E and Zhang Zhaoshi.

1944, Changsha and other places fell, Hunan Lantian Teachers College for Nationalities moved to Xupu, and Mr. Qian Jibo invited himself to stay, dying. After the war of Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan, the Kuomintang army won a great victory and the enemy escaped from danger and retreated. The following year, after the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Mr. Qian left Hunan and was employed by private Huazhong University in Wuchang.

Mr. Liao left Hunan on 1947 and returned to Shanghai Guanghua University. Two years later, the National Teachers College was merged into Hunan University, and 1953 was put on hold again. On this basis, Hunan Normal University was established.

1953 In September, according to the instructions of the Central South Ministry of Education, Hunan Normal University merged some departments of Hunan University, Nanchang University and Henan Plain Normal University, and some students from Tsinghua University, Hunan University, Nanchang University, Northeast Normal University, South China Normal University and Henan Plain Normal University, becoming one of the most professional normal universities in China at that time.

From 1957 to 196 1, Changsha Normal University, Hunan Institute of Physical Education and Hunan Art College merged one after another. 1984, officially renamed Hunan Normal University.

1996 became the only provincial university in Hunan province to enter the first batch of national "2 1 1 project" key construction universities.

Since 2000, it has merged with Hunan Education College and other three universities to form a new Hunan Normal University. After several generations of unremitting efforts, the school has developed from a single normal college to a multi-disciplinary coordinated development normal university that pays equal attention to both teachers and non-teachers, and has now become a national key construction school of the "2 1 1" project. Among the provincial universities in Hunan Province, the faculty is the strongest, the strength of running a school is the strongest, and it has entered the advanced ranks of similar universities in China.