Abstract: Professor Zhou Hongyu has been deeply involved in the field of Tao Xingzhi for more than 40 years and has achieved fruitful research results.For 40 years, he has devoted himself to the construction of "Tao Xingzhi learning", and believes that the establishment of "Tao Xingzhi learning" is an inevitable requirement of contemporary social development and educational reform, a true expression of cultural self-confidence and educational power, and an effective way to solve current education problems.The re-editing of The Complete Works of Tao Xingzhi (New Edition) will help promote the current and future education reform, development and innovation in China, and is of great value and significance for building a high-quality education system and building an educational powerhouse.The Complete Works of Tao Xingzhi (New Edition) has established a new classification system, added a number of important lost articles, compared with the original texts, research and verified the details of the articles, and added the description of each volume.Zhou Hongyu also introduced his five experiences and paths of Tao Xingzhi research, and believed that while sticking to the research of Tao Xingzhi, it should also be pioneered, and on the basis of learning and inheriting Tao Xingzhi's life education, it should be creatively transformed and innovatively developed.The team of Central China Normal University has developed Tao Xingzhi's life education into life-practice education, making it have a new era connotation.