133 years ago today, on March 5, 1892 (February 7, 1892 in the lunar calendar), Chinese modern educator Chen Heqin was born. Chen Heqin Chen Heqin, Chinese modern educator. Born on March 5, 1892. From Baiguan Town, Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province. December 30, 1982 Chen Heqin passed away in Nanjing. He was 91 years old. Chen Heqin put forward the theory of living education. Attaching importance to scientific experiments, advocating that the development of Chinese children's education should be suitable for national conditions and in line with the laws of children's physical and mental development; calling for the establishment of a teacher training system for children's education. Compiling dozens of kinds of kindergarten and primary school textbooks and children's extracurricular reading materials, designing and promoting toys, teaching aids and kindergarten group equipment. Initiated the organization of the Childhood Education Research Association, China Children's Education Society and other groups to edit "Childhood Education", "Primary School Teachers", "Living Education" and other publications, as well as "Childhood Education Cluster" and "Childhood Education Papers Collection". His life is mainly engaged in a series of groundbreaking pre-K education research and practice. In the 9th year of the Republic of China, the first child was born. From the first day, continuous observation and experiments were carried out, and detailed text and photo records were made for 808 days. In 14 years, he published "Research on Children's Psychology", which is the earliest monograph to study children's psychology using tracking methods in our country. In response to the bad habits of dead reading and teaching dead books for thousands of years, the requirements of living reading and teaching living books were put forward, which had a great impact. His main works include "Family Education", "Research on Children's Psychology", "Kindergarten Curriculum", "The Road to Childhood Education in China", "Introduction to the History of Education", "My Half Life", etc., and co-authored "Intelligence Test Method", "Test Outline", etc., which are included in "Chen Heqin Education Essays" and have published "Chen Heqin Complete Works".