The relationship between aesthetics and aesthetic education: Aesthetics and aesthetic education are two related but different disciplines. Aesthetics belongs to the category of basic theory at the philosophical level. "Aesthetic teaching" is at the scientific level and belongs to the category of applied theory.

Aesthetics is a theoretical discipline with its own independence and integrity, while aesthetic education is a marginal discipline produced by the cross-infiltration of aesthetics and pedagogy. Aesthetics is the mother subject of aesthetic education, and aesthetic education is the sub-subject of aesthetics.

"Educational aesthetics" is one of the important components of education, and it is the product of mutual infiltration and high integration of pedagogy and aesthetics.