According to historical records, China had the form of school education as early as 4000 years ago in the Xia Dynasty. "Mencius" said that Xia, Shang and Zhou "set up training, preface, learning and school to teach them, the trainers raised them, the teachers taught them and made them shoot them." There are three schools of thought, namely, Xu, Zhou Yueyao, while learning is shared by three generations, all due to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the earliest form of school education in China appeared in the Xia Dynasty.

Education in China has existed since the primitive society. During the Five Emperors' period, equality, equality and other ancient schools sprouted. In the early days of slave society, that is, Xia Dynasty, the earliest form of school education in China appeared, namely equality, order and school. The educational system of the past dynasties is only the embryonic form, and it has not really taken shape.

From the Western Zhou Dynasty, the education system began to be relatively perfect, with certain selection methods and criteria, which also changed with the development of the times.

The education in Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties was aimed at the descendants of princes and nobles, and the audience was essentially different from later generations. The schools in the Western Zhou Dynasty were run by officials, and only provided for the children of princes and nobles to learn. In essence, they were "learning from officials".

The content of learning is the six arts education centered on rites and music, including rites, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and mathematics. According to the content, cultivate talents with both civil and military skills. After the Western Zhou Dynasty, every dynasty had an education system that met its own needs.