The major of Calligraphy Education of CNU was established by Ouyang Zhongshi, a renowned scholar and calligrapher. In 1985, adult calligraphy college education started and 93 students were taken in throughout the country, which attracted wide attention and supports from academic and calligraphic circle. Those came to give lectures or become teachers including: Zhu jia, Li Changlu, Wang Xiaju, Ouyang Keliang, Liu Jiuan, Zhang Chonghe, Liu Qian, Ye Xiushan. Yang Chenbin, Qiu Xigui, Gao Ming, Shen Peng, Li Duo and Liu Binsen. The first batch of graduates acquired comprehensive improvement in their knowledge and artistic accomplishment, whose graduate exhibition was held in Beijing and Hong Kong, obtaining high praise. Calligraphy education was offered after the success of the former college education, which made the high-level adult calligraphy education a complete system.

At the same time when adult calligraphy education was created, Ouyang Zhongshi pushes it further to a higher level. In 1991, the center was allowed to enroll master post-graduates while in 1993, Ph. D degree authorization was approved by the Academic Degree Commission of the State Council. Furthermore, post-Ph.D in calligraphy was established with the approval from Ministry of Personnel in 1998, when the first post-doctor entered the university and began his research work. Aimed at widening channels for high-level talents in calligraphy education and offering more training opportunities for more people majoring in calligraphy theory and education and calligraphers, the Center has set up a class for major courses for post graduates and another class for students who wanted obtain diploma with the same effectiveness as that of post graduate. At the same time, the center accepts visiting scholars, graduate students, and foreign doctors and master post-graduates in a wide range. Doctor Examination Advisory Committee is founded to ensure talent selection, education quality and the principle of fair competition, and famous scholars of Jing Kaicheng, Feng Qiyong, Shi Shuqing, Shen Peng, Wu Xiaoru, Wang Xuezhong, Jiang Weisong, Cheng Dayu, Yao Dianzhong and Wei Junxiu are invited to serve as the members. The center also invited famous scholars as Yao Zongyi to work as the consultants to give teaching and conduct scientific research and chair doctors and post-graduates' graduation paper reply.

Thanks to a decade's hardworking and supports offered from all circles, Capital Normal University has formed a perfect higher calligraphy education system ranging from post Ph.D, P.h.D, MA to college, and the calligraphy education is listed into the key construction disciplines of State "211 Project", which makes calligraphy education included in modern discipline construction system of our country, a key category in cultural and arts and position steadily in higher learning system and academic field. Since its foundation, CNU has made outstanding achievement in higher talent education. 800 adult education graduates, 16 masters, six Ph.Ds, 80 plus from post graduate class, eight foreign Ph.D and masters and 20 visiting scholars and graduates students are cultivated in the center.

As leader of the center, Ouyang Zhongshi set up the direction and fundamental concept for calligraphy education. First, proceeding from the angle of the characteristics, overview should be much wider to keep from the narrow artistry, and make a wider and deeper study on calligraphy by regarding it as cultural phenomenon. Calligraphy is an integral part of Chinese culture. As a major, calligraphy would be restricted if it were deemed as an art only. To make calligraphy a branch of learning, its cultural intension shall be further explored, and a complete scientific and theoretical system shall be set up to upgrade academic level of calligraphy to a new height and find its correct position in modern discipline construction. Secondly, study on calligraphy shall not be conducted to explore its cultural and art value and its inner development rule only, but also to establish connections with other relative disciplines, to seek crossing of discipline edges, to set up a two-way relationship, to draw nourishment from others, to position calligraphy in Chinese culture in the crossing of multi-discipline as a result of fixing coordinates of calligraphy in modern discipline construction. Under the fundamental concept, moves shall be taken to establish a complete and scientific calligraphy education system step by step, making clear study and field, fixing education objective, laying down teaching planning and course layout, to form a distinct advantage and feature during the process of improvement and deepening of discipline construction, to push itself to be a base for higher talent education and scientific research on calligraphy of our country.