At the beginning of the last century, the citizen education introduced from the west to China . Ye Sheng-tao was one of the intellectual elites at the time of the civic education thought in the Republic of China, to penetrate into the compilation of textbook. Ye Shengtao thought that the ultimate goal of education was to cultivate qualified citizens. Kaiming National Language Textbook was Ye Shengtao personally complied mother tongue textbook for pupils. Kaiming National Language Textbook shaped citizen images, permeated with the patriotism education, the education of social morality and public life education, showed the relationship between parents and children,between teachers and students, between partners as equal citizen. The citizen education, not only embodies the characteristics of social Chinese farming civilization and traditional culture of ethics in the early twentieth Century, but also has distinct features of the times. Kaiming National Language Textbook become the model of mother tongue textbooks for local citizen education.