Abstract:The traditional education of Ethnic Minority Yi involves forms of social education, clan education, family education, and Bimo education, and its content is based on production skills, morals and ethics, Bimo culture, etc. This education focuses on the ideas of being practical, being value-oriented, liberal art instead of science, and general and individual educational behavior of integration of teaching and practice. This education's form, content and their characteristics have exerted a great influence on the development of ethnic Yi minority's modern education.