It is clearly pointed out in the Guide: "The key for children to learn in the art field is to fully create conditions and opportunities, germinate children's feelings and experiences of beauty in nature and social culture, enrich children's imagination and creativity, and guide children to learn to feel and discover beauty with heart and express and create beauty in their own way."
From the Guide, we know that the core value of art education in the Guide is to cultivate children's creative consciousness and ability, and to cultivate children's ability to perceive, imagine and feel aesthetic objects.
The expressive ability of artistic expression includes the elements of expressive skills, but they cannot be equated. In early childhood, performance ability is more important than performance skills, which is determined by the age characteristics of young children. Because art is a child's language. Art and painting are children's languages. He expresses what he thinks and wants to do through sound, painting and body. We should have this understanding.
In art theory, there are instrumentalism and ontology, and art is a tool to express society. When children can't or are not good at using spoken and written language, they will naturally express their wishes and feelings with body movements, sounds and pictures.