The definition of aesthetic education has two meanings: in a narrow sense, it is to educate people through artistic means, and in a broad sense, it is to educate people with all forms of beauty of nature, social life, material products and spiritual products, so as to beautify people's mind, behavior, language and posture and improve people's morality and wisdom.

Its purpose is to cultivate and develop people's aesthetic consciousness and make people have a deeper understanding of beauty. Aesthetic education broadens people's aesthetic perspective and makes people know and understand the true meaning conveyed by a work or thing more deeply.

Aesthetic education is also called aesthetic education, or aesthetic education for short. This means that human beings realize their own beautification by transmitting their positive achievements in aesthetic activities. The basic task of aesthetic education is to pass on the accumulated aesthetic experience and achievements in history to the next generation through effective educational means, and to train the next generation according to their own aesthetic ideal requirements, so that they can continue to promote the creation of beauty on the basis of inheriting the existing achievements.

Aesthetic education is an organized and purposeful way of directional education. It takes art and various forms of beauty as specific media means, displays the rich value and significance of aesthetic objects through aesthetic activities, and directly affects the emotional world of the educated, thus subtly shaping and optimizing people's psychological structure, casting perfect humanity and enhancing the realm of life.