During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the establishment of Yunnan Book Province and Yunnan Province ended the separatist forces in Nanzhao Dali, and not only brought Yunnan into the political system consistent with the mainland, but also tried to bring Yunnan culture into the cultural system consistent with the mainland. Education, which undertakes the task of changing customs, was also rolled out in the whole province at the beginning of the establishment of the province. The establishment of Yunnan's organized school education system, which is consistent with the mainland, means the arrival of the era of civilian culture and education in Yunnan.

The information about Yunnan education since Yuan and Ming Dynasties is not only concentrated in the school records of various local chronicles, but also scattered in various official histories and unofficial history.

In the 11th year of Zhiyuan (1274), in order to change the fierce and ignorant behavior of Yunnan people, Zhang Lidao, general manager of Zhongqingdao, set up a Confucius Temple in the southeast of Fuzhi, established a school official in Yunnan and selected scholars as teachers in Sichuan. Saidianchi Lake and Zhanglidao started to run schools from the provincial capital, creating a trend of learning Confucianism in one province. Then the school spread from the provincial capital to various places. In the 22nd year of Zhiyuan (1286), Zhang Lidao was appointed as the military and civilian propaganda ambassador of Guangxi Road, Lin 'an, Yunnan, and founded a temple school on Jianshui Road. In the same year, Hao Tianting participated in the construction of Dali Road Temple School in the provincial capital, and Zhao was appointed as its instructor. More than ten schools were built in Yunnan in the Yuan Dynasty. Wang Sheng, a native of Li Chengfang, Kunming County, once served as a promoter of Confucianism in Yunnan, and once governed Dali, Yongchang, Lijiang, Heqing, Yao 'an and Wei elementary schools. In addition, there are Anning State School, Chengjiang Official School, Taiding School, Hexi County Confucianism, Lin 'an State School, Songming State School, Shiping State School, etc., all of which were built in Zhong Zheng School. It can be seen that the schools in Yunnan in the Yuan Dynasty were mainly concentrated in Dianchi Lake and Erhai Lake and some economically developed areas in central and southern Yunnan. After the Yuan Dynasty established its school in Yunnan, the system of taking scholars in imperial examinations was also introduced into Yunnan. During the first year of the Qing Dynasty (13 12), the imperial edict ordered the national winter season and the imperial examination in October, stipulating that Yunnan was promoted to the fifth grade, but the version was unknown and no one took the examination. It was not until the sixth year of Yuan Dynasty (1335) that Wang Mingcai, a native of Kunming, was the first in Yunnan in the Yuan Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, only five scholars in Yunnan were Li, Li Yu, Duan Tianxiang and Li Tianzuo. They are all from Kunming, reflecting that there is still a considerable gap between Yunnan education and the imperial examination in Yuan Dynasty, and the development of Yunnan education is unbalanced. By the Yuan Dynasty, the focus of Yunnan culture had shifted from Erhai Lake in Nanzhao Dali to Kunming.

The rulers of Ming Dynasty attached great importance to education. Not only is imperial academy huge, but local government-run schools are also more developed than before. The Ming dynasty ruled Yunnan for more than 300 years, and Yunnan's education has achieved unprecedented development, mainly in the increasingly complete educational system in Yunnan. Not only are more and more Yunnan literati enrolled in imperial academy, the central official school, but there are also many forms of local official schools in Yunnan, such as county schools, social schools, health schools and academies. With the school covering most parts of Yunnan, the number of people receiving education, especially the children of ethnic minorities, is increasing day by day, and the educational influence has reached its peak.

The local official schools in Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty developed on the basis of the Yuan Dynasty. After the Ming army pacified Yunnan, it first restored some schools of the Yuan Dynasty destroyed by the war, such as Yunnan, Lin 'an, Chuxiong and Hexi. By the end of Hongwu, most of the Confucianism established in the Yuan Dynasty had been restored. At the same time, some new counties have been established, such as Yuanjiang Prefecture and Jinning Prefecture in Yunnan Province. Newly established Zhaozhou, Dengchuan, Taihe, Yunnan and Langqiong counties in Dali; Lin 'an Prefecture has three counties: Ningzhou, Amizhou, Tonghai Hexi, xi 'e and Mengzi. Set up Annan State School in Chuxiong; The establishment of Jianchuan Sinology in Heqing Military and Civilian Mansion made a good start for the establishment of Yunnan schools in the Ming Dynasty. After Yongle, Orthodox, Jingtai, Jiajing, Wanli and other dynasties, schools at all levels in Fuzhou County, Yunnan Province spread all over 16 states within Lancang River. According to the chronicles of Yunnan recorded in The Apocalypse, from Hongwu to the Apocalypse, there were 16 government schools, 23 state schools, 10 county schools and 3 Confucian temples in Zhou Shun, Yunzhou and Yuanmou of Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty. Sociology is a school for enlightening children established in ancient villages and towns. In the eighth year of Chenghua (1472), Dingbian County ordered Feng Yuanguang to establish Dingbian Society. Since then, Lunanfu and Guangtong County have successively established social studies, with as many as 160 social studies in Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty. Social studies are mostly located in rural areas, which is conducive to the spread of China culture at the grassroots level. In order to strengthen the control of frontier ethnic areas, the Ming Dynasty set up a garrison in Yunnan. During the reign of the British Orthodox Church, the first health school was established in Yunnan. Later, Confucianism of Pingyi Wei and Liu Liangwei was established. The rulers of the Ming Dynasty ruled Yunnan by force, which promoted the development of frontier culture and political stability. Many academies founded by local officials in Yunnan do not have the characteristics of private free lectures in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and are entirely official education. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi (149 1), Langya County ordered Cai Xiaojie to build Longhua Academy in the north of the county seat, which was the earliest college established in Yunnan in that era with exact records. In the third year of Jiajing (1524), Governor Wang Qi established Wuhua Academy, the first provincial academy in Yunnan history, in Fu Xue, northwest Yunnan, and its establishment was the beginning of higher education in Yunnan. There were 56 academies in Yunnan Province in the Ming Dynasty. In this era of civilian education, private education in Yunnan has also developed. Since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, schools have become popular. Some people return to their hometowns to teach after their studies are successful, or their careers are frustrated, and they retire to their hometowns as apprentices, or they run schools to make a living and set up family schools to train future generations. Since the Ming Dynasty, the garrison officials have been migrating to Yunnan, where they made friends and sang songs with literati, which also played a role in education and enlightenment. In private schools in Yunnan, father and son are passed down from generation to generation, and family education between grandparents and grandchildren is the most common. Fu Cheng, a native of Yunnan, according to the Book of Changes, he worked as a selfish family in Zhongjiang, Sichuan when he was young. Seeing that his son was brilliant and talented, he "refused to make progress in his career and asked him to go back to the fields to teach his son." Taihe He Siming's family is a selfish family model with four generations living under one roof. The mutual clamor between official and private schools has created an atmosphere of knowing the wind and learning arts and an era of rites and music in Hua Mu, Yunnan. For a time, even some ungrateful and disobedient ethnic minorities were able to send their children to school. In the Ming Dynasty, imperial academy, the central official school, trained a group of children of ethnic minorities, and some local officials also donated money to establish the school, actively participating in and assisting local officials in running the school.

In the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of schools in Yunnan took Confucian classics as the educational content and Confucian ideal personality as the training goal, which was more closely integrated with Confucianism. Yunnan education in Ming Dynasty is also a typical Confucian education. In the official school system, the state grants schools venues, sets quotas, appoints professors, disciplines, corrects students and teaches teachers. The teaching content is divided into etiquette, music, shooting, imperial examination, calligraphy and mathematics, each with its own reality. The books that students are used to reading are The Complete Works of the Four Books, The Complete Works of the Five Classics, Rites of Zhou, Daming Law, Imperial edict, Learning from Your Own Experience, and so on. Books taught by sociology include Children's Language, Amethyst, Hundred Family Names and Hundred Poems. Every year, students have an annual exam, and there are teachers in spring and autumn. In the 28th year of Hongwu (1395), Ming Taizu said that the Ministry of Rites said, "All local officials in the Yunnan-Sichuan border region set up Confucianism to teach their sons and nephews how to be handsome, so that they can know the meaning of a monarch, a minister and a father, without violating etiquette, and it is also a way to protect the border." These remarks reflect that the rulers of the Ming Dynasty have realized the important role of education in politics, and it is not difficult to see that the establishment of schools serves politics. The fundamental purpose of running a school in Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty was to make the students who entered the school understand the code of conduct and a set of ethical principles through the systematic education of Confucianism, and to cultivate people with lofty ideals whose words and deeds conform to the feudal moral norms, so as to rehabilitate the country and consolidate the frontier. The essence of China's traditional educational thought, such as teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, enlightening and inducing, reviewing the old and learning the new, paying equal attention to learning and thinking, and progressing step by step, runs through the teaching.

The popularization of civilian education has brought about industrial prosperity and cultural development. In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), Yunnan began to take the provincial examination in Yingtian. That year, Jong Li and Yang Chong from Kunming took the pilot test. In the ninth year of Yongle (14 1 1), Hong Cheng and other 28 people took the Yunnan Provincial Examination, which formed a system every three years. In the Ming Dynasty, the province held 8 1 rural examinations. By the time of the apocalypse, there were 697 people in Yunnan Province and 475 people in Dali Prefecture. In the next generation, there are people in Yunnan 17 provinces, except Guangnan Prefecture.

Confucius said, "It is quite successful to keep your word and learn and teach." Confucian education in Ming Dynasty greatly promoted the development of Chinese culture and the prosperity of Yunnan minority culture. Confucianism, with its irresistible educational power, has impacted the simple hearts of Yunnan scholars, brewing an unprecedented social change and shocking cultural change. As long as we see this change, we can imagine how much energy education has injected into the social and cultural development of Yunnan.

Stepping into the old Qing society, the old things are declining, and the signs of decline are becoming increasingly clear. However, the speeding wheel of history still pushes the remote Yunnan cloud area to another cultural peak with its irresistible inertia. Yunnan education in the Qing Dynasty is still full of vitality in its twilight years. In the 6th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1667), Jiaohua, Wangnong and Annan, which belonged to the former Lin 'an government, were newly established as administrative regions of Hua Kai government, and Confucianism was built in this government. After the pacification of San Francisco and the land reform, the number of schools in Yunnan has been increasing, from more than 60 in the Ming Dynasty to more than 100, and it has shown a trend of spreading from the mainland to remote areas and from dam areas to mountainous areas and ethnic minority areas. In the forty-fourth year of Kangxi, the Lijiang House School was established after the restructuring, and Shunning House also set up a school after the completion of the restructuring. In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong, the Gong Xue Middle Temple was built. Later, schools were established in northwest and south Yunnan, such as Mianning Hall, Longling Hall, Weixi Hall and Anping Hall. Yi-ology, also known as Yi-ology, is an enlightenment education. Its teaching contents are mainly reading, literacy, courtesy and righteousness, and the funds are donated by officials and gentry or rented fields. In the third year of Yongzheng, Weiyuan opened the earliest voluntary school for ethnic minorities in Yunnan-Scholar Volunteer School. Yongzheng five years, the court approved Dongchuan and other places to build native compulsory schools, hire teachers, recruit some familiar children to learn first, get along with Han children every day, and learn Oracle Bone Inscriptions's extensive training, poetry and books. If they succeed, let them go back to their hometown to teach their children. Teaching foreigners, especially in the period of teaching Han nationality, is in line with the reality of ethnic minorities, and it is really effective for ethnic minority children to learn Chinese and Han etiquette. In today's Yuanyang Abang Township, after the establishment of Yixue, the atmosphere gradually opened up, which is a typical example of people knowing loyalty. During the two hundred years from Kangxi to Guangxu, there were nearly 700 voluntary schools in Yunnan, which played an irreplaceable role in popularizing Chinese culture. Academies, which were in a higher position in school education, also had new development in the Qing Dynasty. Cai Yurong, Governor of Yungui in the 24th year of Kangxi, and Wang Jiwen, Governor of Yunnan, founded Yucai Academy (also known as Kunming Academy) on the left side of Huiguang Temple outside the south gate. Emperor Kangxi wrote the word "Yucai" in calligraphy and presented it to the Academy as a commendation. This is the beginning of the establishment of Yunnan Prefecture Academy in Qing Dynasty. In the future, the province will repair or build more than 240 academies. In the ninth year of Yongzheng, Governor E Ertai rebuilt Wuhua Academy and hid the Collection of Ancient and Modern Books in Wuhua Academy. With the knowledge of Guangyuan scholars, the Academy has collected more than 10,000 books, and achieved remarkable results, ranking first in provincial examinations over the years. In the 17th year of Guangxu, the academy was founded by the Governor and Governor Tan, and its setting was similar to Wuhua Academy. The lecturers are all famous Confucian scholars, with excellent academic performance, and the talents they have created are very popular. Wuhua Academy, Zheng Jing Academy and Yucai Academy are outstanding among more than 100 academies in Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty, and they have become a major event in Yunnan education in the Qing Dynasty.