What is aesthetic education

As a kind of emotional and personality education, aesthetic education can allow children to experience a more colorful cultural and spiritual life, feel richer emotions, and expand their understanding of the living world. Lin Yufei is a mother who has practiced family aesthetic education for many years. She attaches great importance to letting her children experience life and contact nature, and she grows up with her daughter Lizi on the road of aesthetic education. In the process, their family has become more emotionally connected, and their daughter\’s spiritual world has become more colorful. collection! Download the full set of 108 compulsory courses on how to accompany your children’s growth. In Lin Yufei’s aesthetic education group, mothers often post their children’s works and share their children’s creations; everyone exchanges information about recent art exhibitions they have been to; and communicates their experiences and thoughts on their children’s aesthetic education. Confused… The mothers in the group come from all over the world. Although they don\’t know each other, they get together because of the common goal of focusing on the aesthetic education of their children. The leader of the group, Lin Yufei, is an illustrator, perhaps because of her profession. She has long paid attention to cultivating her daughter Lizi\’s ability to perceive beauty. However, her method is not to let her children pick up a paintbrush early and learn, but to lead Lizi to explore in life and nature. , to seek beauty and discover beauty. Cultivate a pair of eyes that discover beauty and a pair of ears that can hear beauty. \”Before the child is 3 years old, we mainly focus on playing, fully contacting life and nature.\” Lin Yufei believes that the beauty around us is everywhere, and more children should be allowed to see and go. Touching various objects; taking your children to play with water and sand, and listening to the chirping of insects and birds in nature are all good ways to improve your children\’s perception and sensitivity. In this kind of free exploration, children\’s five senses (vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch) will slowly open up and form their own understanding of the world. During this carefree exploration, Lizi often transformed into a hundred thousand whys and asked some weird questions. Once, when the mother and daughter went out for a walk after dinner, Lizi suddenly raised his head and asked his mother, \”Why are you still here when it\’s dark?\” Will there be clouds?\” Yu Fei thought for a while and said: Because it wants to come see you and play with you! In her opinion, stimulating children\’s imagination is more important than learning scientific knowledge before they are three or four years old. \”I will tell her the intellectual stuff later. Just like when she asked me when she was a child, why is the sky blue? I will let her Guess who painted it. Some people say that imagination is inversely proportional to the amount of knowledge. At this stage, I hope to inspire her to pay attention to the beautiful details in life.\” If Yu Fei is guiding Li Zi to open up his wild imagination, then The father provided his daughter with more fresh natural materials. Li Zi’s father, Wang Chen, is a popular science writer. Weekends are often a time for the family of three to explore nature. With my father, a science expert, every outing becomes an interesting journey of discovery. Lizi\’s Natural Observation Once when he was hiking in Baihua Mountain, Wang Chen discovered a unique little beetle. He gently pinched the little beetle with his fingers. The little beetle seemed to be begging for mercy and began to \”kowtow\” non-stop. Lizi saw it. After getting interested, he \”played\” with this little bug with his father. Wang Chen told Li Zi that it was called a \”kowtow bug\” and that it was not poisonous. When in danger, it would pretend to be dead. When the danger passed, it would suddenly bounce up and fly quickly. Escape. Lizi was filled with joy when she heard this, and she pestered her father to take her to look for other insects.They harvested many insects such as grasshoppers and scarab beetles. She also happily named each little bug and observed it carefully. In the wild, Chestnut often harvests various little surprises: she learned about a plant called pokeweed, and the juice squeezed out of the fruit can be used as paint for painting; she had to sit on wild mugwort when picnicking by the river. Nearby, because this plant can repel mosquitoes… Every time he travels, Wang Chen will unlock some little secrets of nature for Li Zi, making Li Zi have a great time. The key to aesthetic education is to feed the child\’s eyes and soul. Perhaps it was his mother\’s drawings that he had been influenced by since he was a child. Li Zi also showed a sensitive and quiet temperament when he was a child. Watching my mother draw, I have to pick up a brush and follow suit. As a result, Yufei began to deliberately provide Lizi with creative opportunities at home, encouraging her daughter to use various materials to create expressions. She would also invite Lizi to tell the stories in her works every time. \”Children\’s paintings are for \’listening\’. In fact, the paintings painted by children before the age of 6 are almost the same. The main purpose is to maintain interest and improve their observation and aesthetic ability in art.\” Another important aspect of family aesthetic education Input means going to various art exhibitions. Since Lizi was more than 4 years old, Yufei has taken Lizi to frequent art exhibitions, cultural relics exhibitions, and museums… In 2019, she took Lizi to 96 art exhibitions. At first, Lizi’s concentration when watching the exhibition was limited. Yufei interspersed some interesting interactive games in the process, so that Lizi could unknowingly devote his attention to the works. For example, in the art exhibition, they would play \”treasure hunt\” together. \”Game – find all the works with animals, plants, and people in the picture; and when watching the cultural relics exhibition, faced with various \”weird-shaped\” appliances, Yu Fei will ask Lili to guess, what are they used for? Why do you want to do this look? After several exhibitions, Lizi has roughly understood the characteristics of the utensils used by ancient people for drinking, eating, and worshiping. When encountering problems while viewing the exhibition, Yu Fei would ask Li Zi to record them in the form of drawings. Once she took Lizi to see a bronze exhibition. Lizi suddenly asked curiously, why did the horses on the exhibit have such short tails? Yu Fei was also asked for a moment, so she suggested that Lizi draw the horse and record the problem, while guiding her daughter to guess whether it was a problem with the breed of the horse at that time, or an evolutionary problem, etc. After watching an exhibition, Li Zi recorded seven or eight questions and looked them up together when he got home. In Yufei\’s view, this way of discovering, recording, and trying to solve problems by oneself can stimulate children\’s desire for knowledge more than instilling knowledge. When visiting exhibitions, Yu Fei would encourage Li Zi to copy some master works on the spot, or to create a work of a similar style after returning home. \”It doesn\’t matter whether the child\’s painting looks like it or not. The main thing is to copy the painter\’s style, which allows her to sort out her feelings about the painter\’s style in her mind and be inspired by it. Lizi used Picasso\’s painting method to paint \”Two Paintings of Mom\” \”Face\” Slowly, as more different styles are tried, children will have their own preferences and perceptions of various styles, which will help form their own creative characteristics in the future.\” In Yufei\’s view, taking children to see exhibitions is a good thing for parents. Don\’t be too \”greedy\” and don\’t blindly impart knowledge with a very utilitarian attitude. childAs a child, stimulating interest in seeing exhibitions was more important than acquiring knowledge. If your child is unwilling to paint, don\’t force it. Going to an exhibition is a happy thing, but if it is too utilitarian, it will dampen the child\’s enthusiasm. Lizi painted \”Laughing Self-Portrait\” when he was 5 years old. It was based on the accumulation of a small number of exhibitions. When he was 8 years old, Yufei took Lizi to see the Shanxi Cultural Relics Exhibition. The mother and daughter could already play and guess the dynasty by looking at the cultural relics. Game over. With patient companionship and guidance, Lizi became more and more enthusiastic about painting, and fell in love with exhibitions from the bottom of his heart. Not only that, the couple also extended their family aesthetic education to ancient poetry. Wang Chen loves ancient poetry and often reads and writes at home. Li Zi also feels the beauty in the rhythm of poetry. They usually play \”Feihua Ling\” together as a family. When Lizi was more than 7 years old, one day Yufei went to see the plum blossoms at the Ming City Wall Ruins. When he came back in the evening, he showed Lizi the video he had taken during the day and told her, \”The trees are full of plum blossoms, and when the wind blows, it looks like snow.\” Lizi followed suit. Said: \”Isn\’t that just like \’building fallen plum blossoms like snow, and they are still full after being brushed all over.\’\” At that moment, Yu Fei felt surprised and happy. Unknowingly, Li Zi had been able to skillfully apply ancient poems to life. . Family aesthetic education allows children to discover a better version of themselves. Yu Fei feels that the impact of aesthetic education on her daughter is all-round. It is not just painting. Her observation and expression of life have become stronger, and she also loves creation more. process. Now when her classmates or family members celebrate their birthdays, Lizi will carefully make a unique gift for each other. The emotions contained in a painting or a handicraft are far more precious than a purchased gift. Usually when the class puts out posters, she is always the first to participate. She feels very honored to be able to contribute to the class. Portraits of fruits and vegetables that can be completed at home. After school every day, Lizi would draw a diary painting that combines pictures and text. During the creation, she not only relaxed her emotions, but also came up with some vivid and beautiful sentences from time to time… In The aesthetic education of painting peonies in the community garden is like a window. After opening it, you will find that the outside is vast and full of surprises. And this cannot be achieved by sending children to training classes. Only with the companionship and attentive guidance of parents can knowledge become warm; only with the emotional connection of the family can children feel the joy of perseverance. Wang Peijue’s book Feeding Storybooks for Children Grown Up in Chinese Simplified Ultra-clear pdf In Lin Yufei’s view, family aesthetic education is not high-end, the most important thing is action. Feelings cannot be obtained through education, and parents need to devote themselves to accompany their children to experience and experience together. comminicate. Family aesthetic education does not necessarily cultivate children to become artists, but allows children to acquire beautiful sentiments, beautiful character and beautiful literacy through this process.