The Western Zhou Dynasty was the heyday of slave society in China. Compared with Shang Dynasty, social productivity was higher, agriculture was prosperous and culture was further developed.

Patriarchal clan system and well field system were the most basic social, political and economic systems at that time. Slave society was the foundation of preschool education in ancient China.

Due to the emergence of class, the public education for children in primitive society has disappeared, and patriarchal clan system has taken on the task of educating preschool children instead. Slave owners and nobles are in a dominant position, monopolizing the right to education, so children's preschool education is limited to the families of slave owners and nobles.

Preschool education for children not only has a distinct class nature, but also has been noticed that with the growth of children's age, corresponding preschool education plans should be made.