Throughout the history, all rulers have the following two educational implications, i.e., teaching and domination of the masses. However, due to the different understandingsof the status of masses, the so-called massive education shows accordingly distinctforms over time. Hence this paper is intended to explore into the historical progress of the massive education in China, by following the main frame of historical changes of the status of the masses, and depicting the educational aim, institution, content, form, performance, over the four respective phases of Pre-Qin Dynasty, Qin and Han Dynasties to the Opium War, the Opium War to the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China. The paper analyzes the causes of the prime and decline of the massive education in relation to the status of the masses, so as to search for the differences and relations between ancient social sermons and the modern massive education.