What is the meaning of "primary school" in ancient China? What did the so-called "primary school" in ancient China mean?

The word "primary school" did not specifically refer to schools at first. In the Western Han Dynasty, philology was called "primary school", and in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was also called "primary school". Reading must first be literate, master the form, sound and meaning of words and learn to use them. When children entered school in the Zhou Dynasty, they first learned harmony (referring to six groups of simple strokes from Jia). Six books refer to things, pictographs, sounds, meanings, annotations and debates, so "philology" used to be called "primary school", hence the name "primary school".

Those who build primary schools are the foundation of national heritage and the end of Wang Jiao. They promote the school first, and the next one is suitable for the people, so they don't just draw strokes and seal words. It's smart to lose the original. -"On the Balance of National Heritage: A Brief Introduction to Primary Schools"

Primary school, that is, China's "traditional philology", must have the word "traditional" because it does not refer to modern philology. Generally speaking, "primary school" refers to writing, phonology and exegetics, which is not very appropriate, because the "three doors" of primary school are originally "integrated", and writing, phonology and exegetics do not exist in isolation, so I will emphasize it here.

In 19 15, China changed the primary school hall into a national school, "with the aim of teaching the basics of national morality and the general knowledge and skills necessary for national life". He entered school at the age of six and studied for four years. After graduation, you can be promoted to a higher primary school according to the specific situation. In addition, preparatory schools have been set up, parallel to state schools and higher primary schools, "with the aim of giving primary general education and preparing for entering secondary schools". National schools are divided into the first four years and the last three years. 1922, ethnic schools were still transformed into primary schools, and preparatory courses were cancelled. 1940, the national government implemented the so-called "integration of management, teaching, education and health care", stipulating that each township should set up a central ethnic school (equivalent to a central primary school), with the township head as the captain and principal of the rural able-bodied man, and each ethnic school should set up one (equivalent to a small village), with the principal as the school director.