19 18 was the initial stage of the Chinese Department of Wuhan University in the late 1920s. Famous scholars such as Huang Kan, Yu Dafu, Wen Yiduo, Zhou Zuoren, Qian, Lin Yutang and Zhou all taught in the Chinese Department at this stage, which laid a solid foundation for the development of the Chinese Department. Professor Huang Kan, who studied under Mr. Zhang, made outstanding achievements in the fields of writing, phonology and exegetics, and was known as one of the "three masters of Chinese studies" in the late Qing Dynasty. The "Zhang Huang School" founded by him and the Zhang family is well-known at home and abroad, which has had a far-reaching impact on the academic research atmosphere of the Chinese Department of Wuhan University.

From the 1930s to the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Department of Wuhan University grew up. During this period, famous scholars such as Liu Yongji, Xu, Tan, You Guoen, Su, Gao Feng, Feng Yuanjun, Ye Shengtao, Zhu Guangqian, Cyrus and Cheng Qianfan all taught in the Chinese Department. Traditional philology and China ancient literature have become the dominant subjects of Chinese Department. As academic leaders of these two disciplines, Professor Boping Liu and Professor Liu Yongji have made outstanding achievements and won great reputations.

The 1950s was the heyday of the Chinese Department of Wuhan University. During this period, the Chinese Department continued to forge ahead and paid attention to discipline construction, which not only consolidated and developed the disciplinary advantages of ancient Chinese and ancient literature, making it at the forefront of similar disciplines in China, but also focused on building new literature and foreign literature disciplines in China, cultivating and introducing a large number of talents, making these two disciplines influential throughout the country. At that time, the faculty of the Chinese Department was strong and talented, forming an academic backbone known as the "Five Old Eight Middle Schools". The specific members of the "Five Old Eight Middle Schools" changed slightly before and after, mainly including Liu Yongji, Xu, Chen, Xilusi,; Cheng, Shen Zufen, Liu Shousong, Hu, Zhou Dabu, Li, and so on. Because of the group advantage, the teaching and research of Chinese department has reached the first-class level in the country.

The anti-rightist expansion in 1957 and the Cultural Revolution in 10 did great harm to the Chinese Department. In addition, a group of respected old professors died, and some brain drain led to the decline of academic research.

Since 1978, the Chinese Department has entered a period of recovery and development. For more than 20 years, the whole department has emancipated its mind, worked hard, paid attention to personnel training and strengthened discipline construction. Before the adjustment of postgraduate training specialty in China, its master's degree specialty has reached 10, including China ancient literature, China ancient literary criticism history, China modern literature, folk literature, literature and art, China history, philology, modern Chinese, linguistics and China classical philology, covering almost all languages and literature in China. The construction of doctoral programs is also remarkable: 198 1 year, the discipline of ancient Chinese with Mr. Huang Zhuo as the academic leader was approved to establish a doctoral program in the history of China, becoming one of the earliest doctoral programs in China. The discipline of modern and contemporary literature in China has developed rapidly under the leadership of Mr. Lv Yaodong, and was approved as a doctoral program in 1990. The discipline teachers are strong and have great influence in academic circles at home and abroad. The discipline of ancient literature in China actively introduced young and middle-aged scholars, which greatly enriched the discipline strength. It was approved as a doctoral program in 2000, showing a vigorous and gratifying development trend. In 200 1 year, with the approval of the Ministry of Personnel and the National Postdoctoral Management Committee, the Chinese Department officially set up a postdoctoral mobile station, and the discipline construction reached a new level.