Lu Xun: A Forerunner Of Science Aesthetic Education In Modern China

In the modern thinking and cultural history of China, Lu Xun was not only a great writer, a famous thinker and a well-known revolutionary, but also a forerunner of science and aesthetic education. His views on science and aesthetic education were generated under the circumstance of certain historical backgrounds in the end of 19^th to the beginning of 20th century in China. And it was also affected by western science and aesthetic thinking. The core of it was to foster all-round developed personnel. And its historical value was not only on pouring new ideas into Chinese modern aesthetic education theory and on adding epoch-making contents, but also still marked clearly that Lu Xun was the forerunner and the founder of Chinese science aesthetic education. With the dramatic development of current science and technology and the increasingly fierce tide of economical globalization, nurturing creative talents became a necessary requirement to national prosperity, to national rejuvenation and to social development. As comrade Jiang Zemin once said, 'Creativity is the soul of nation. Without it, the nation can not achieve independentness in the world.' From it, Lu Xun's views of science and aesthetic education possessed a tremendous advocating role and also illuminating guidance for Chinese people to make the country strong through science and education.