In ancient China, formative education refers to a form of enlightenment education connecting primary school and preschool children, which is equivalent to the primary stage of ordinary primary education, but its meaning is wider than that of ordinary primary education. It also includes the enlightenment education received by ordinary children in various forms before and after school, which refers to the cultural and moral enlightenment education in rural schools, families and social education through certain organizational processes and the use of specific methods and means.