Wang Guowei comprehensively introduced the western aesthetic education theory. Wang Guowei published the article "On the Purpose of Education" in August 1903, the 56th issue of Education World, and called aesthetic education and moral, intellectual and physical education "four educations". Although Wang Guowei followed the name of western aesthetic education and discussed aesthetic education as an education, he had noticed the particularity of aesthetic education different from general education. Under the social background that the country was poor and weak at that time, the people's spirit was empty and there was no sustenance, especially in the environment where opium was repeatedly banned, Wang Guowei proposed to implement aesthetic education to promote the noble taste and healthy mood of the people and develop the new spirit of the people. He particularly emphasized the prosperity of literature and art to meet people's spiritual needs. He said: "Aesthetic education, on the one hand, makes people's emotions develop, on the other hand, it is a means of moral education and knowledge education, and educators must attach importance to it." He even thinks that aesthetic education is "emotional education". Wang Guowei believes that aesthetic education can cultivate people's soul, enrich and develop people's emotions and cultivate people's aesthetic ability and creativity; At the same time, it can become a means of moral education and intellectual education, and promote the implementation and development of moral education and intellectual education. On the one hand, it strengthens the emotional influence function of aesthetic education, on the other hand, as a tool for intellectual education and moral education, it shows the charm of emotional characteristics of emotional-driven aesthetic education.

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