The development of Chinese piano music culture including professional piano education is based on the traditional culture of "neutralization", and in the researches about the professional piano education in the 21st century, the research of the piano teaching in normal colleges is the most active one, and it is mainly centralized in the piano teaching reform, the teaching mode, the vamping, the teaching materials and teaching methods. In this article, above aspects are classified and analyzed, and the future development direction of the piano teaching research in higher normal colleges in the 21st century is discussed, and it should be studied more seriously.