The "Regulations on School Art Education" implemented by China's Ministry of Education points out that through art education, students can understand China's excellent national art and cultural traditions and outstanding foreign artistic achievements, improve their cultural and artistic accomplishment, enhance their patriotic feelings, cultivate their ability to feel, express, appreciate and create beauty, cultivate their sentiments, develop their individuality, enlighten their wisdom, stimulate their innovative consciousness and creativity, and promote all-round development. At present, schools in our country are emphasizing educational reform, changing the concept of art education, embodying the requirements of quality education, reducing the difficulty of knowledge and skills, embodying people-oriented and student-centered development, and emphasizing innovation and practical ability. Through music education to improve students' artistic quality, so as to improve students' personality quality. Many countries in the world have listed art courses as national core courses, because art disciplines play an irreplaceable role in cultivating high-quality talents.

First, art education is an important way to implement aesthetic education.

Suhomlinski said: "Beauty is a kind of gymnastics of the mind, which enables us to have spiritual integrity, pure conscience and correct feelings and beliefs." In modern society, due to the diversification of life and the extensive knowledge and information, aesthetic activities have become an important part of people's lives, and aesthetic education has also become an objective requirement of the times. What is aesthetic education? It is an education that touches students' emotions through realistic beauty and artistic beauty, so that students are infected and influenced in their hearts, thus cultivating students' correct aesthetic outlook and ability to feel, appreciate, express and create beauty. Aesthetic education is not only an important content of scientific and cultural education, but also an important means and way to improve people's scientific and cultural quality. It is an important part of school quality education.

Music is an auditory art that shapes images with sound. It affects people's emotions through hearing with a certain rhythm and melody, and at the same time makes people's hearing develop better in music. Music education plays a positive role in developing students' intelligence, imagination, memory, active thinking and cultivating good moral sentiments. In music education, teachers teach students to sing with expressions by singing, listening to songs, playing games, dancing, etc., and make beautiful and coordinated rhythmic movements or dance movements to cater to music, thus cultivating students' initial music appreciation ability and simple singing and dancing skills, and developing students' musical talent and imagination and creativity in music art. For example, when enjoying Cowboy Piccolo, teachers project a set of slides on the screen, and children see green fields and cowboys ride on the screen. With the change of the picture and listening to beautiful music, children can not only feel the happy mood of the shepherd boy, but also have a certain understanding of the rich connotation of music. Under the influence of music, children's desire to perform also arises. When they make certain rhythmic movements with the rhythm of music, their imagination and creativity are also developed.

Second, art education and moral education are inseparable.

At present, students' ideological and moral education is moral education in a broad sense. Its content is very extensive and far-reaching, involving all aspects of students' study and life, and affecting the formation of students' discipline concept, study attitude, living habits and patriotism and love for the party. It is closely related to students' words and deeds, which can be said to be everywhere. The substantive methods, means, goals and effects of moral education in the implementation process are inseparable from the grand aesthetic education of various disciplines in the school. Compared with Chinese, mathematics and other subjects, art education has more intuitive image and teaching characteristics and advantages close to students.

For example, by learning to sing revolutionary historical songs, students are educated in revolutionary traditions; Train students' patience, carefulness, perseverance and self-confidence through the training of dance teams, choirs and painting interest groups several times a week; Cultivate students' awareness and ability of practical innovation by guiding students to conceive and create small works; Through the training and successful performance of the choir, let the students understand the truth that "a small pool becomes a sea and a big pool becomes a tower", and at the same time establish the collective sense of honor for the school; For example, student Liu Ying said, "In the music world, I joined the choir. During the activity, I learned what beauty is, and more is unity and cooperation. " . Liu Ping, a member of the choir, said, "It is a great honor for me to join the choir. It not only helped me learn to sing beautifully, but also cultivated my noble sentiment and made me understand that a person should have firm faith, optimism and courage. " By singing the song "Compassion for Farmers", students are educated to care about people's sufferings and cherish food. Through collective art training such as school drum team, students' team spirit of unity and cooperation can be cultivated, and so on.

Tolstoy once said: "Art is one of the means of communication between people." Art education shows a wide range of infiltration functions. The essence of art education is to cultivate people's overall attitude towards life and concept of life consciously and imperceptibly, and its ultimate goal is to cultivate a sound and perfect personality. In the development of human spiritual civilization, the pursuit of beauty is of great significance. The value of art education lies in providing an internal spiritual nutrition and cultural value for individual psychological growth and spiritual development, thus improving human spirituality. It can be said that art education contains the progressive factors of human spiritual civilization, is an important way to improve the level of human spiritual civilization, is a positive reconstruction, and is also an important functional link to develop individual spiritual strength.

The key of art education should be to cultivate children's artistic thinking, that is, not only let children learn to create and express simple works, but more importantly, let them understand and appreciate the connotation of their own and others' cultural works, learn to explore their own and others' emotional world in highly personalized artistic activities, and connect related works with their own lives and concerns. In other words, art education is to cultivate students' aesthetic and artistic creativity with the help of artistic practice, give full play to students' personal artistic expression, cultivate students' artistic aesthetic ability and artistic appreciation ability, let students learn to work and live artistically, give full play to their creativity, and integrate art into their personal lives.

Because of our extensive and in-depth art education activities, most students learn what they are interested in in in interest groups, and learning happily can make them more "free" and enjoy it. This emotion is transferred to learning and other activities, which makes students feel "entertaining" in school and makes our art education fruitful. We believe that as long as we persistently strengthen art education, quality education will surely bear rich fruits in our school!