Traditional Chinese family as a school of children upbringing

The article reflects some features of traditional Chinese family: its structure, nature of the relations between its members, the established requirements to children upbringing. The Chinese family has always been distinguished by a commitment to compliance and preservation of intra family and community traditions. The special value is represented by social relations, identification with a group, sharing of the lifestyle and the pursuit to common goals. It is in the family that children developed the experience of parental responsibilities, with the requisite skills to establish and maintain a certain atmosphere of interpersonal relations, habits of intergenerational interactions and family behavior. One of the main upbringing tasks of the traditional Chinese family is the provision of continuity of the ancestors cult and the cult of son’s piety, traditions of observance the intra-family hierarchical relations, feelings of kinship and solidarity.