Training class are one of the common and flexible institutional arrangements in the cultural reproduction system of organizations and political parties, with a remarkable historical contribution in the fields of cultivating talents, disseminating knowledge and cultivating ideas. As an important design with the characteristics of short term, clear focus,a combination of theory with practice and priority of the vita activa, the training class as in the Yan’an period, especially photography training class with certain technical skill, became an organic part of the Yan’an path. In the more complex, organic theatre of history and culture, Yan’an’s training classes, especially the photography training classes, quietly became a device for questioning related historical questions and historical linkagas which are hard to differentiate. This device not only has done great contributions and innovations in the construction of justice, in the eyes of the people, but also shows the meaning of landscape in the historical connection with national defense education, Yan’an’s film group and so on, because of its abundant strains. Photography training classes were full of practical wisdom, which was a the historical product beyond effective dialogue between organizational wisdom and technology, time, space and scene.

Yan’an period; the photography education; the photography training class; national defense education