Early childhood education is the second half of preschool education, and it is an important and special stage of one's education and development.

Early childhood education also has broad sense and narrow sense. In a broad sense, all activities that can affect children's physical growth, cognition, emotion and personality can be defined as early childhood education, while in a narrow sense, early childhood education refers to the education of specialized early childhood education institutions such as kindergartens.

Kindergarten education belongs to the school education system in China. Like school education, kindergarten education also has advantages that family education and social education do not have, such as planning and systematization.