Aesthetic education is also called aesthetic education. In China, aesthetic education is an integral part of the educational policy advocated by Cai Yuanpei. He pointed out that "aesthetic education is to apply aesthetic theory to education for the purpose of cultivating emotions." He attaches great importance to aesthetic education, and thinks that aesthetic education is a bridge to guide people to transition from the phenomenon world to the entity world. He pointed out that guiding people to transition from the phenomenon world to the physical world cannot be achieved by "criticism" or by "simple words". "Therefore, educators have to resort to aesthetic education if they want to introduce the concept of reaching the material world from the phenomenal world." The task of educators is to make people reach the highest spiritual realm through aesthetic education.

He believes that the function of aesthetic education is to "cultivate our feelings, make us have noble and pure habits, and make people's ideas of self-determination, self-interest and loss of others gradually disappear." "

Aesthetic education can cultivate regret and make people more noble; You can be selfless and detached; It can make people rely on the enjoyment of beauty, get rid of bad habits in life and beautify life.