There are many ways to strengthen college students' aesthetic education, and inheriting and promoting excellent traditional culture is one of them. As an ancient civilization with a history of more than 5,000 years, China has formed splendid traditional culture in the long-term historical development process, and has also left us rich educational materials and many successful examples of aesthetic education.
First, carry forward excellent traditional culture and take "self-cultivation" as an important goal of aesthetic education. Meng Ziri: "I am good at cultivating my noble spirit." Patriotism has always been regarded as a "big festival" in China's excellent traditional culture. "Being brave", "being a martyr to our country", "doing one's best" and "giving up one's life and forgetting one's death", etc., advocate integrity and stress sentiment, cultivate China people's sense of justice and right and wrong, form national integrity, and gradually condense and consolidate their deep feelings and national integrity for the motherland. This belief has been enriched and perfected from generation to generation. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan and Gu in the Song Dynasty had summed up this point brilliantly with the famous sayings of "Worrying about the world first, then enjoying the world" and "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", expressing the lofty aspirations and lofty integrity of Chinese sons and daughters to take the world as their own responsibility, care about the country and the people, and love the country and the people. A person with great love in his heart can achieve the future. It is the goal of our education to cultivate our college students into such people with great love.
Second, carry forward excellent traditional culture and take "self-cultivation" as an important way of aesthetic education. China people attach importance to personality cultivation, forming the subjective moral spirit of inward exploration, which is embodied in the theory of virtue cultivation characterized by self-discipline and self-cultivation. This theory of self-cultivation emphasizes self-discipline and self-transcendence, thus maintaining interpersonal relationship and overall order and establishing moral self. "Book of Rites University" said: "From Tian Zi to Shu Ren, all of them are based on self-cultivation". In China's ethical thoughts, a set of unique methods of self-cultivation have been formed, such as self-denial, introspection, private prosecution, respect for Tao, gathering righteousness and nourishing qi. The most representative is what Ceng Zi said: "I will save the three provinces." This tradition of introspection has cultivated the consciousness and initiative of the Chinese nation in practicing morality, and shaped many gentleman personalities with noble quality and firm moral integrity. Aesthetic education can play an important role in cultivating and developing the perceptual ability of the educated, cultivating and perfecting noble personality and shaping perfect ideal human nature. First of all, we should pay attention to the personality cultivation of the educated. Only people with good sentiment and morality can feel, appreciate and create beauty, and can constantly improve themselves, improve themselves and surpass themselves.
Third, carry forward the excellent traditional culture and regard "harmony between man and nature" as an important content of aesthetic education. Although ancient thinkers in China have different understandings of the relationship between heaven and earth, they all think that heaven and earth are inseparable, and the classic summary of this internal relationship is "the unity of heaven and man" and "the unity of heaven and man". Biography of Zhouyi says: "Husband is in harmony with heaven and earth, with the sun and the moon, and with the four seasons." Thinkers call the phenomenon that man, nature and the law of social development coexist as morality. The idea of "harmony between man and nature" emphasizes the coordination between man and nature, and its theoretical basis is to regard the whole world as a big system in which both man and nature are located. However, due to the unreserved exploitation of nature and the unrestrained consumption and enjoyment of natural objects, the relationship between man and nature has become highly tense. Today, the world is already facing the dilemma of resource depletion and fishing. Mankind's blind conquest of nature has been retaliated by nature, and environmental crisis and energy crisis have been coming. Humans are increasingly aware of the importance of the coordinated development between man and nature. Today, with the construction of a well-off society and a harmonious society in an all-round way, it is particularly important to regard "harmony between man and nature" as an important content of aesthetic education.
Fourth, carry forward excellent traditional culture and take "self-improvement" as an important content of aesthetic education. The phrase "strive for self-improvement" comes from Yi Zhuan: "A gentleman strives for self-improvement". Self-improvement is a magic weapon to inspire China people to be brave in innovation, make unremitting efforts to overcome all kinds of risks and withstand all kinds of tests. Self-improvement means that a nation, a country and every practical subject give full play to their subjective initiative and consciousness, be positive, go forward bravely and strive for strength. This spirit is the essence of China traditional culture and the spirit of the Chinese nation, which has been valued and advocated by people of insight since ancient times. Self-improvement is characterized by self-esteem, self-confidence, supercilious and independent personality; It is characterized by perseverance, hard work, not being pessimistic and discouraged in the face of difficulties and setbacks, being brave in pioneering and enterprising; It is manifested in lofty aspirations, persistent pursuit of lofty ideals and goals, and so on. For thousands of years, this spirit of self-improvement has influenced the trend of the whole national culture and spiritual activities. Regardless of the past, present and future, it is the spiritual motive force for our country and nation to stand among the nations of the world. Aesthetic education in colleges and universities must inherit and carry forward the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation and cultivate young students to establish an aesthetic spirit of self-improvement.
2 1 century is an important period of strategic opportunities for socialist China, but it also faces unprecedented difficulties and challenges. As the backbone of socialist construction, college students can overcome all difficulties and obstacles on their way forward and realize their own value in building a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation only if they have the noble sentiment and aesthetic spirit of self-transcendence, continuous progress, perseverance and tenacious struggle.