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During the Zhou Dynasty (1045 BC to 256 BC), there were five national schools in the capital city, Pi Yong (an imperial school, located in a central location) and four other schools for the aristocrats and nobility, including Shang Xiang
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Confucius who was the founder of Confucianism, was a Chinese philosopher who made a great impact on later generations of Chinese, and on the curriculum of the Chinese educational system for much of the following 2000 years.
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education through this period was a luxury, during the Ch'in dynasty, a hierarchy of officials was set up to provide central control over the outlying areas of the empire.
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During the Han Dynasty, boys were thought ready at age seven to start learning basic skills in reading, writing and calculation.
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In 124 BC emperor Wudi established the emperial academy the curriculum of which was the five classics of the Connfucius.
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By the end of the Han Dynasty the Academy enrolled more than 30,000 students, boys between the ages of fourteen and seventeen years.
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The Nine rank system was a civil service nomination system during the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589 AD) in China.
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The Nine Rank System was eventually superseded by the Imperial examination system for the civil service in the Sui Dynasty (581-618 AD)
