Abstract: Beijing Normal University has gone through a history of 120 years.The Chinese discipline has always accompanied the Beijing Normal University in the journey.The modern Chinese literature is an important filed that lays the foundation of the academic influence of Beijing Normal University.LIANG Qichao,MA Yuzao,LI Jinxi and other modern scholars,LU Xun,QIAN Xuantong,LIU Bannong and other new literary pioneers have jointly established the profound humanistic tradition of Beijing Normal University and this tradition can join ancient and modern.At the beginning of reform and opening up,LI Helin recreated a new situation in the modern literature discipline of Beijing Normal University.WANG Furen and others inherited and developed the “LI Helin's study of LU Xun”,which created another peak in the modern literature research of Beijing Normal University in the new era.For more than a hundred years,the modern Chinese literature of Beijing Normal University has become a discipline with a long tradition,rich characteristics,and important influence in the country and even the world.It has formed multiple characteristics,such as focusing on the study of literary history,parallel multi style studies,focusing on the study of writers' works and the construction of historical materials,and emphasizing the current value of literary research.The academic tradition of the modern literature of Beijing Normal University not only has the unique literary resources and ideological resources,but also contains the spirit of ancient sages and famous teachers who are calm and introverted,as well as pioneering and enterprising.This tradition shows the humanistic feelings of the Chinese discipline,witnesses the glory and hardships of Beijing Normal University for a century,and carries the ideological evolution and the era vogue of the Chinese nation for a century.

Key words: Beijing Normal University, modern literature, academic tradition, spiritual construction