In ancient China, aesthetic education was a happy education, and its contents were as follows.

During the Western Zhou Kang period, the school education system with the basic teaching content of "rites and music shooting at several books" was complete, and the teaching of "music" with the main purpose of "taking music as morality" in the Six Arts was also the main form of art education, which played an important role in cultivating artistic feelings, artistic tastes and other qualities. Music, songs and dances, etc. , is the earliest mature category in ancient Chinese art. However, due to the different forms and nature of art, there is no direct connection between music education and aesthetic education. However, music education has a wide impact on later art education by revealing artistic laws, cultivating artistic literacy and emphasizing artistic character.

Among the six arts, "book" is an important link with art education. The teaching content of books includes reading and writing. Because of the special image of Chinese characters and their important position in China's cultural tradition, the reading and writing of Chinese characters have a fundamental educational effect on the formation of China's visual cultural habits. Therefore, the "book" in the Six Arts is of far-reaching significance to the ancient art education in China.

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The early form of ancient aesthetic education in China was "before Wang Le" in ancient books of pre-Qin and Han dynasties. "Pre-Wang Le" is a comprehensive art education form that integrates poetry, music and dance. On the other hand, this "music education" itself is also integrated with primitive religion, politics and ethics. Yijing says, "The first king respected virtue with joy, and recommended God with yin to match his ancestors." Therefore, the so-called "before Wang Le" should belong to the unconscious tradition of aesthetic education. This tradition did not change significantly until the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, with the development of ancient culture from primitive sacrificial culture to ritual and music culture, the primitive natural religion since the Shang Dynasty turned to humanistic rationality [1], and the ritual and music system circulating in ancient books gradually separated the aesthetic education tradition from the primitive religion, and the original chaotic "music education" was gradually divided into "poetry education", "music education" and "ethics education". Li Zhoudi's teaching of "Rite, Music, Shooting, Imperial, Calligraphy, Numerology" and "Six Arts", as well as Li Zhouguan's "Music and Dance", "Language and Music" and "Virtue and Music" are all manifestations of this differentiation.

From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, "poetry education", "music education" and "moral education" assumed the aesthetic function of social etiquette and music education and individual personality cultivation. ...

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