The influence on traditional education in China began with the existence of schools. Probably during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, I can't remember exactly, but during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, private schools prevailed, and a hundred schools of thought contended, each with its own students. A hundred schools of thought contend and a hundred flowers blossom. But those who have knowledge are all upper-class people, and they basically happen among gentry and nobles. The Qin Dynasty only admired Legalism, so it expelled and suppressed other schools, resulting in Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Yin and Yang (later Taoism), famous scholars and military strategists either died or fled. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism prevailed again, and in the following two thousand years, China took Confucianism as its orthodoxy. In the Song Dynasty, with the further development of Zhu and Cheng Yi, Confucianism evolved into a religious school with Confucius as the highest master (in fact, the ancestor of Confucianism was). It is also the school that has the greatest influence on the traditional education of later generations.

Taoism is a native religion, which started from Taiping Taoism in Shi Tian at the end of Han Dynasty and Wudoumi Taoism in Zhang Lu, Sichuan Province, and gradually evolved into today's Taoism on the basis of Huang Laozhuang's theory. Song dynasty began to prevail in the whole country.

Buddhism is a foreign religion, which began in the Han and Yuan Dynasties, flourished in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and became a national religion in the Tang Dynasty, and gradually became popular.

Confucian traditional education attaches importance to form, respects the relationship between heaven and earth, pays attention to ceremony, righteousness, honesty, shame and faith, and learns the classics of six arts, including shooting, imperial, ceremony, music, books and numbers. Classics include four books and five classics, which belong to metaphysics and have no practical use of six arts. The above does not include China ancient mathematics, geography, society, architecture and other unpopular disciplines. At the beginning of Confucianism, only when Wen Tao was skilled in martial arts could he argue clearly and rightly, and he really learned from heaven and earth. In order to be an official, the students of later generations only paid attention to classics, so they became scholars who could do nothing but do it.

Traditional education pays attention to the cultivation of human servility, which is actually considered by feudal rulers to control the people. Therefore, anti-Confucian thoughts appeared in modern China.

The present educational form basically continues the ancient traditional educational form, only with the cultivation of other hobbies, which promotes students' innovative consciousness, but as far as I am concerned, it is just a change of medicine. The reform has not yet succeeded.

Since Confucianism dominated the country, Buddhism and Taoism have been spread in the form of religion, which has greatly reduced the influence on the educational form and the concept of governing the country in later generations, and has almost become superstition and has no practical significance.