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Public life is a practical communication activity for citizens that takes place in the public sphere to promote public awareness, public affairs and public morality. The lack of students’ public life is likely to lead to the lack of relationship in schools’ civic education, the weakening of students’ micro-public space consciousness and publicity in the Internet age, and the removal of cultural intimacy of civic education. Schools’ civic education should be based on the construction of the whole social public space, so that students’ public life will be organically linked with the global social public space. Schools should solve the conflicts between public expression and individual discourse expression by activating the student citizenship, pay attention to the shaping of students’ cultural emotions through public life experience of national history and Confucianism, and promote the achievement of students’ social emotions and social consensus.