1 Introduction Life consciousness mainly refers to the individual's conscious awareness of life existence, which is a kind of examination of the value of human existence. The essence of life consciousness education in Chinese teaching is to make students have excellent character, intelligent understanding, rich emotions and keen feelings. The new curriculum standard clearly puts forward the nature of Chinese subject: Chinese subject is the unity of instrumentality and humanity. Instrumentality means that Chinese subject is a tool to use mother tongue; Humanism refers to putting people first and attaching importance to human life. Therefore, we should infiltrate and cultivate students' life consciousness in primary school Chinese, so that students can feel the rhythm of life, feel the touch and happiness brought by life, and cherish, love and cherish life. On the other hand, the current Chinese education in primary schools in China is very lacking in the cultivation of life consciousness. Generally speaking, it is mainly influenced by exam-oriented education and traditional educational concepts. First of all, Chinese teaching in many schools still pursues the enrollment rate, unified examination scores and school rankings. The consequence of this exam-oriented education is to let students get in touch with society too early and let students pursue scores too much. When the grades can't meet the requirements of parents or schools, students feel that they have no hope and grasp of their goals, and their spiritual home loses its meaning. Although China's socialist market economy is constantly developing, science and technology are constantly improving, and material living conditions are greatly improved, many people's spiritual life is extremely scarce, which eventually leads to life.