Family education performed an irreplaceable function in passing on the experience of production,life experience and skills of the forefathers,cultivating the habit of economic behavior of the younger generation and developing the economy of Yi area in the Yi traditional society in short of school education.And economic function is one of the main functions of traditional family education in Yi society,it was incarnated in imparting knowledge of production technology to the younger generation and cultivation of concepts such as working hard,practicing economy and accumulating wealth.