The word "Chinese" has a short history. 1905, after the Qing dynasty abolished the imperial examination system, it began to open new schools. At that time, all the courses and textbooks were imported from the west, and only one subject was called "Chinese", which was to teach ancient Chinese. After the May 4th Movement, Chinese classes were challenged by advocating vernacular Chinese and opposing classical Chinese, so primary schools were changed to "national language", and the teaching materials had distinct oral characteristics, all of which were vernacular Chinese, nursery rhymes and stories. Middle schools are still teaching Chinese, and the proportion of vernacular Chinese has also increased significantly. The works of new literature writers such as Lu Xun, Ye Shengtao and Bing Xin were all selected. In the late 1930s, Ye Shengtao and Xia Mianzun put forward the concept of "Chinese" and tried to compile new Chinese textbooks. Unfortunately, they were forced to stop because of the Japanese aggression against China. After the national liberation, Mr. Ye Shengtao once again proposed that "Mandarin" and "Chinese" should be combined and renamed as "Chinese". This proposal was adopted by the education authorities of the North China government and then extended to the whole country. Since then, "Chinese" has become a main course in primary and secondary schools, and even extended to other countries.