The starting point of music aesthetic education is to cultivate students' aesthetic perception ability. The aesthetic perception ability of guzheng music refers to students' understanding of guzheng music, combining with typical music, and inspiring students to feel the different functions of different musical elements in music performance with simple and vivid language. For example, the performance of excitement and enthusiasm is often very strong, beautiful, sad and lyrical, but the intensity is very weak. Excellent guzheng works have a profound historical precipitation, and many guzheng songs are adapted from historical stories. In the process of appreciation, it is particularly important to cultivate students' musical imagination. For example, Fishing Boat Singing Late is a beautiful and interesting guzheng song. Sunset, rippling lake, fishermen working happily on fishing boats, combined with specific scenes, develop rich associations, combined with melody, rhythm, intensity, speed, sound area and other musical elements, and describe the connotation of music in their own language.
The artistic expression of guzheng is formed by the organic combination of many factors. Correct playing posture, standardized playing fingering, emotional excavation of the work, historical background and cultural background of the work are all important factors. These are also ways to strengthen aesthetic feeling, which has a great and long-term impact on students' appreciation ability. On the contrary, if the class only focuses on one fingering and one skill, then students' artistic expression can't be really improved. In addition, by watching the demonstration performance between teachers and students, we can indirectly see our own similar problems and learn from each other. Playing guzheng, like reading China classics, can improve concentration and keep inner peace. Appreciating traditional guzheng music can help us understand history from music. For example, the work "Regret in Lin 'an" describes the heroic story of Yue Fei, so that students can understand the patriotic enthusiasm of the national hero Yue Fei in impassioned music and educate students in patriotism through music. The work condenses the history of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years.