Abstract: Only by thoroughly studying and constructing ancient Chinese educational discourse can we realize the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional educational thoughts, and thus better learn from Western educational thoughts and construct a discourse system of contemporary Chinese education. Starting from the category and proposition of education, this paper puts forward the goal and entry point of constructing the ancient Chinese discourse system, and discusses how to construct the ancient Chinese discourse system scientifically based on materialist dialectics.

Key words: ancient Chinese education, discourse system, dialectics