Native knowledge has been the representation of ethnic identity and national consciousness. In the modern history of China, re-understanding the native education and the patriotism originating from the love for one’s homeland was endowed with a strong political character and became the bargaining chip of the late Qing Dynasty against the Western world. With faithful love for the purpose and Confucianism as the basis, the government of late Qing Dynasty gradually fostered the concepts of family and country, love for the homeland and the sense of patriotism in children through such multiple measures as promulgation of school system, curriculum setting, textbook standardization, method improvement. In this way, traditional culture has been ceaselessly evolved, promoting its modern transformation, and provided a historical mirror for native education in the context of post-rural China. |