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How to understand the basic characteristics of traditional education in China?

1. National characteristics, China's traditional culture is unique to China and different from other national cultures in the world. Its remarkable feature is that the three national cultures of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism support each other and blend with each other.

It has a long history. For example, Confucianism, a traditional culture in China, has a history of 5,000 years.

3. Broad and profound, "broad" refers to the broadness of China's traditional culture-rich and colorful, and "profound" refers to the profundity of China's traditional culture-unfathomable.

According to different historical periods, education can be divided into primitive social education, slave social education and feudal social education (collectively referred to as ancient education), capitalist education and socialist education.

China Ancient Education In ancient China literature, the word "education" first appeared in Mencius' "Heart and soul".

Shuowen Jiezi explains that "teaching is the effect applied to it"; "Education, training children well", education is teaching and educating people.

In primitive society, ancient education was mostly taught by elders through practical activities and passed on from mouth to mouth.