The artistic friendship system advocated by Tao Xingzhi is that students learn to be teachers in practice by learning and doing. It is a method of training teachers put forward by Tao Xingzhi. Art is both art and craft. All those who use friends' Taoism to do art or gain benefits are artistic friends, and all those who use friends' Taoism as teachers are artistic friends' normal education.

Interpreting the system of artistic friendship: the thought of normal education is an important aspect of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought. In preschool normal education, it is characterized by adopting art shock and art friend system to train preschool teachers. Art friendship system means that students make friends with experienced teachers, learn by doing and learn to be teachers in practice. The biggest feature and advantage of the infant normal education of the art friend system is that students study on the spot in the kindergarten, which overcomes the phenomenon that normal education is divorced from reality. It is impossible to establish a large number of normal schools quickly, but also to train high-quality teachers. Save time, graduate in one and a half to two years, and shorten the three-year graduation period of kindergarten teachers.