Chen Heqin is a famous educator, child psychologist and child education expert in modern China. He is the founder of modern preschool education in China, and has made a very important contribution to the development of education in China, especially to preschool education and children's psychological research. Known as "the father of early childhood education in China" and "Flobel in China". The thought of "life education" is the core of Chen Heqin's educational thought.

The traditional "death education" only makes children die from reading, while the most important feature of "living education" is to emphasize the close connection between education and life reality and social reality.

The fundamental purpose of education is to teach children to be human beings. Education should cultivate children to become a complete person: attitude, good habits, inner interests, learning methods and life skills.

Education should pay attention to the environment and make use of it.

Children should have a good environment, including natural environment and social environment. Chen Heqin believes that the love of beauty is the nature of children, and the creation of children's environment should be natural and artistic.

Let the children learn while doing. "Living education" advocates the liberation of children's body and mind. "Children should be allowed to do whatever they can."

Nature and society are living textbooks. Teachers should change the traditional method of "death education", break through the narrow world of kindergartens and let children learn in nature and society.

The content of the course should be interrelated. Children's cognition has the characteristics of wholeness, so the curriculum arrangement should pay attention to the correlation between the contents in order to facilitate children's memory and understanding.

Flexible curriculum. Children's living environment is different, and the curriculum can't be consistent. It should be different according to the actual situation of nature and society.

Emphasize the cooperation between kindergarten and family. Kindergartens, like families, are places for early childhood education. Kindergartens should keep close contact with their families and pay attention to "family cooperation".