The modern education of the Chinese course in the late Qing and early Republic，especially the composition writing teaching，in the inheritance school education that pays attention to the cultivation of students’ home，on the basis of feelings, and assisted by western modern education and scientific spirit，which makes the students influenced by the traditional culture, gradually completed the displacement to the modern culture，and new literature laid a solid foundation for their creation.Under the modern education of Chinese course，not only (fundamentally changed) the school education, that pay attention to the teaching method of “rote learning”, and more profound changes is the thesis writing mode，namely from the imperial examination “eightpart essays” writing gradually shifted to the writing of their true feelings and ideas.Mao Dun secondary school essay writing，bearing the teachers thought enlightenment and education of Mao dun，profoundly affected the construction of his spiritual world， to the literary creation road for its solid foundation.

Mao Dun； modern education； the Republic of China education system； essay writing; writing of Modern Chinese literature