Aesthetic education, also known as "aesthetic education", together with moral education, intellectual education, and physical education, constitutes the basic content of quality education in our country. In comparison, aesthetic education is a kind of transcendent and comprehensive education. It emphasizes "cultivation", which is the subject's active participation and full-hearted devotion, allowing people to experience beauty, experience success, experience joy, experience sublimity, and subtly enhance their sensitivity to beauty, appreciation, creativity and self-improvement. ability.

There are various means and ways to strengthen the aesthetic education of college students, and inheriting and carrying forward excellent traditional culture is one of them. As an ancient civilization with more than 5,000 years of history, China has formed a splendid traditional culture during its long-term historical development, and has also left us with rich educational materials and many successful examples of aesthetic education.

1. Carry forward excellent traditional culture and regard "cultivating righteousness" as an important goal of aesthetic education. Mencius said: "I am good at nourishing my awe-inspiring spirit." In China's excellent traditional culture, patriotism has always been regarded as a "big festival." "Be brave when seeing justice", "sacrifice one's life", "do one's duty without mercy", "sacrifice one's life for justice", etc., advocating integrity and stressing sentiment, cultivated the Chinese people's sense of justice and sense of right and wrong, formed the nation's awe-inspiring righteousness, and gradually condensed and consolidated it. Deep affection for the motherland and national integrity. This belief has been enriched and improved from generation to generation. Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty and Gu Yanwu in the late Ming Dynasty respectively used the famous sayings of "worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's happiness later" and "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country." He made an incisive summary and expressed the Chinese people's heroic ambition and righteousness in taking the world as their own responsibility, caring about the country and the people, and loving the country and the people. Only a person with great love in his heart can achieve a successful future. It is the goal of our education to cultivate our college students into such loving people.

2. Carry forward excellent traditional culture and regard "cultivation of moral character" as an important way of aesthetic education. Chinese people attach great importance to personality cultivation and have formed a subjective moral spirit of inward exploration, which is embodied in the theory of virtue cultivation characterized by self-discipline and self-cultivation. This theory of self-cultivation emphasizes autonomy, self-discipline, and self-transcendence in order to maintain human relations and overall order and establish a moral self. "Book of Rites·University" says: "From the emperor to the common people, all are based on self-cultivation." In Chinese ethical thought, a set of distinctive self-cultivation methods have been formed, such as being cautious, introspecting, self-litigation, advocating respect, gathering righteousness, nourishing Qi, etc. The most representative one is what Zeng Zi said, "I examine myself three times a day. ". This tradition of self-cultivation and introspection has cultivated the consciousness and initiative of the Chinese nation in practicing morality, and created many gentlemen with noble qualities and firm integrity. Aesthetic education can play an important role in cultivating and developing the perceptual abilities of the educated that other forms of education cannot, cultivate a sound and noble personality, and shape a perfect and ideal human nature. Then we must first pay attention to the personality cultivation of the educated. Only people with good sentiments and good morals can feel, appreciate and create beauty, and can constantly improve, improve and surpass themselves.

3. Carry forward excellent traditional culture and regard "harmony between nature and man" as an important content of aesthetic education. Although ancient Chinese thinkers had different understandings of the relationship between heaven, earth and man, they all believed that heaven and earth, nature and man were inseparable. The classic summary of this inner connection is "the unity of heaven and man" and "the harmony of nature and man". ". "Zhouyi Da Zhuan" says: "The great husband is in harmony with the heaven and the earth, in harmony with the sun and the moon, and in order with the four seasons." Thinkers call the phenomenon in which humans interact with the laws of nature and the laws of social development as morality. . The idea of ??"unity of man and nature" emphasizes the coordination between man and nature. Its theoretical basis is to regard the entire world as a large system, and man and nature are integrated into this large system of the universe. However, due to unreserved exploitation of nature, uncontrolled consumption, and enjoyment of natural objects, the relationship between man and nature has become highly tense. Today's world is already facing the dilemma of fishing from the marsh. Humanity's blind conquest of nature has been retaliated by nature. Environmental crises, energy crises, etc. are constantly coming. Humanity is increasingly aware of the importance of the coordinated development of man and nature. Today, when we are building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and building a harmonious society, it is particularly important to regard "harmony between nature and man" as an important content of aesthetic education.

Fourth, carry forward excellent traditional culture and regard "continuous self-improvement" as an important part of aesthetic education. The phrase "constantly strive for self-improvement" comes from "Yi Zhuan": "Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman strives for continuous self-improvement." Constant self-improvement is the magic weapon that inspires the Chinese people to change, innovate, work tirelessly, and overcome various risks and withstand various tests. Constant self-improvement means that a nation, a country and every practical subject give full play to their subjective initiative and consciousness, be positive, move forward courageously, and work hard to become stronger. This spirit is the essence of traditional Chinese culture and the essence of the Chinese national spirit. It has been valued and advocated by people of insight since ancient times. Self-improvement is manifested in the character of self-respect and self-confidence, neither humble nor arrogant, and having an independent personality; it is manifested in perseverance and hard work, not pessimistic or discouraged in the face of difficulties and setbacks, and the courage to explore and be proactive; it is manifested in having high aspirations and serving the lofty goals Persistent pursuit of ideals and goals, etc. For thousands of years, this spirit of continuous self-improvement has influenced the trend of the entire nation's culture and spiritual activities. No matter in the past, present or future, it is the spiritual driving force for our country and nation to stand among the nations of the world.

Aesthetic education in colleges and universities must inherit and carry forward this excellent cultural tradition of the Chinese nation, and cultivate young students to establish an aesthetic spirit of self-improvement.

For socialist China, the 21st century is an important period of strategic opportunities, but it also faces unprecedented difficulties and challenges. As the backbone of socialist construction, college students must possess the noble sentiments and aesthetic spirit of self-transcendence, continuous progress, perseverance, and tenacious struggle, in order to overcome all difficulties and dangers on the road ahead and achieve the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and realizing the Chinese realize their own value in the great rejuvenation of the nation.