Abstract: After thousands of years of historical accumulation,Chinese traditional childrens values education has formed a complete content system.There are positive and reasonable elements in this system,as well as negative and dross things,which created important cultural conditions for the inheritance and reform of the traditional values education in the primary and secondary schools in the late Qing Dynasty.Under the background of modern Chinese cultural change,this value education inherited the fine tradition from traditional value education,which emphasized “filial piety first”,“moral of loyalty and forgiveness” as well as personal moral cultivation education.Furthermore,it abandoned the decadent educational content of foolish loyalty and foolish filial piety.At the same time,it absorbed western modern justice,public morality,equal rights,abiding by the law and other elements of moral education.On the one hand,the inheritance and reform of the values education in primary and secondary schools in late Qing dynasty and early republic of China were deeply influenced by moral of Confucianism and educational traditions.When the new thoughts and practice of value education produced,the traditional Confucian moral and educational traditions were still deeply rooted.On the other hand,the eastward spread of western learning in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China caused changes in Chinese traditional culture.These changes promoted the inheritance and reform of value education in primary and secondary schools.In addition,the reflection of cultural ideas and the examination of western morality and culture from modern advanced thinkers and educators on traditional Chinese morality also promoted the inheritance and reform of this value education.

Key words: late Qing Dynasty and early republic of China, values education in primary and secondary schools, traditional moral education