Education through fun is the integration of education and entertainment, so that people can be educated through entertainment.

This is an important viewpoint on the function of poetry put forward by Horace, an ancient Roman poet, in the art of poetry, that is, poetry should bring fun and benefits to people, and should also give advice and help to readers.

Literally, it means to put education in fun, and in layman's terms, it is a way of education through art and beauty. Taking aesthetic education as the unity of entertainment and moral education requires that literature and art have charm and give people a sense of beauty through touching.

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The idea of "entertaining through education" has a long history, and it has drawn a rich and colorful stroke in the history of art. Today, "entertaining through education" is still one of the mainstream ideas of art. Whether a work is dynamic or not and whether it can truly realize "entertaining through education" is still an important criterion to measure the quality of a work of art.

"Teaching" mainly refers to social ideological and moral education and also involves cultural development. Teaching is the purpose and the ultimate goal. Teaching is often boring, academic and boring, and it often needs the help of music.

In poetry and works of art, the function of education should also be realized by enabling people to obtain various concrete images of pleasure, and be cultivated and educated in aesthetic experience and sense of beauty, so as to easily achieve the expected educational effect.

"Education through fun" also reveals the essential characteristics of art: the universal truth, goodness and beauty contained in art must be transformed into a form that can be directly accepted by individual sensibility through clear personalization, and works of art must be the integration and unity of the beauty of form and the beauty of content.