The teaching object of college aesthetic education is undergraduates of various majors, and the course attribute is a public compulsory course. It aims to enable students to develop basic aesthetic ability, have correct aesthetic and aesthetic pursuit, and finally realize the continuous improvement of self-personality.

Cai Yuanpei, a famous educator in modern times, once discussed the self-restraint function of aesthetic education on "noble thoughts", which echoed the spirit of aesthetic education advocated by the state in recent years.

In 2020, the General Offices of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council issued the Opinions on Strengthening and Improving Aesthetic Education in Schools in the New Era, which reflected the unprecedented attention paid to the cause of aesthetic education at the national level and highlighted the significance of carrying out aesthetic education in various academic periods.

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Aesthetic education is an indispensable part of all-round development of education. It is a combination of aesthetic teaching and aesthetic teaching, which improves people's ability to know, understand, appreciate and create beauty through education. It is an important focus to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor in the new era, and plays a unique and irreplaceable role in educating people.

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Art is the most concentrated and typical form of aesthetic education. Aesthetic education subjects refer to minor subjects in the traditional sense, such as art, physical education, music, science, morality and legal system, which focus on cultivating children's art, physical education and ideological morality. In fact, these subjects are indispensable for children's growth and play an important role in their all-round development.

Improving people's ability to know, understand, appreciate and create beauty through education is an important focus of cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor in the new period, and plays a unique and irreplaceable role in educating people.

Among them, art is the most concentrated and typical form of aesthetic education. Aesthetic education in socialist schools in China serves the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and the cultivation of students' spiritual beauty and behavioral beauty.