The first stage of education in China, including education in China from primitive society to the middle of slave society, is a long historical period. During this period, due to the need of survival, human beings engaged in large-scale productive labor; In order to expand the fruits of labor, it is necessary to manufacture labor tools, so it is necessary to impart skills and experience. The ancient education in China originated from the need of human participation in group social activities and the need of human physical and mental development. Chinese education in this period was accompanied by production and life.
The second stage of ancient education in China
From the appearance of schools in the Western Zhou Dynasty to the establishment of an independent Chinese subject in the early 20th century, the Chinese education in this period was an ancient Chinese education period. Compared with the previous period of language and literature education, formal schools have been set up in China's ancient education period, and education in China gradually separated from labor and social life. The Chinese education in this period, taking the "Five Classics" and "Four Books" as classic textbooks, or taking the poems of famous writers of past dynasties as models, is a mixed Chinese education regardless of literature, history and philosophy.