Chinese traditional culture contains abundant life education thought resources, and Confucianism is the mainstream thought of it, especially in the Pre-Qin Confucian thoughts which represented by Confucius, Mencius and Hsun Tzu, who carried out the education full of life view. Exploring Confucian life education thoughts from these four aspects, the goal of education - cultivate the man of noble character, the principle - integrity, individuality and development, the contents - view of life that respect and cherish life with human life above all, realm of life that human and nature are in harmony, attitude of life that constantly strive to become stronger, and view of death that comply with nature, the characteristics - life value is higher than life time life groups above the individuals, and the self-discipline is more important than the other-discipline. Eventually, apply the theoretic achievements to life education of contemporary medical students so as to establish a sound system of life education for medical students.