Abstract: As a main content of Chinese education discipline, Chinese reading education closely connects with the real life of students. Under the development of quality education, reading education breaks through traditional closed-end teaching. But there are still some problems such as boring teaching contents, low interests in teaching, monotonous teaching methods and low reading efficiency and so on. Combining life with reading could form the reading and Chinese reading instruction based on life, both of which mutually reinforce to improve the level of the students' reading together, strengthen students' ability of reading and promote the cultivation of complete personality of students. It's an inevitable developing trend of reading education.