Abstract:

The Chinese nation is adept in summing up historical experiences and attaches great importance to historical education. Those far most ancestors' initial historical consciousness and their spread of historical knowledge were sprouts and sources of traditional historical education in ancient China. The primeval historical education was carried out by means of orally passing on historical knowledge. Its main contents included historical myths and legends concerning social practice and life. Its instructive significance consisted in transmitting historical knowledge, carrying forward fine traditions of ancestors, and inspiring people's spirit and will. Such a kind of primitive historical education had striking features of times.

Key words: remote antiquity, historical education, oral history, myth and legend, historical consciousness