Research On The Thoughts Of Aesthetic Education Of Xia Mianzun

Xia Mianzun is a famous educationalist and writer in china.His educational thoughts have been studied a lot as a educationalist and writer.These studies mainly focus on two aspects,one is about his educational idea of Chinese language and literature,the other is about his educational idea of education of love,while study on his thought of aesthetic education is rare.Actually,making a general survey of his life and his writings,he was practicing aesthetic education in his whole life.This can be illustrated through three aspects.First,his many writings have embodied aesthetic education thoughts.Such as education of love that he translated is a work aiming at practicing emotional education;the education of love sequel is a work aiming at practicing education of will;a ABC theory of literature contains many aesthetic and literary thoughts;Wen Xin contains many literary educational thoughts.All the works above are the great sources of Xia Mianzun's thoughts of aesthetic education.Second,as Xia Mianzun devoted himself to the developing of educational enterprise all his life,his educational method of exerting influence which based on emotion and educational belief of education of love,his educational method and belief of paying attention on education of personality and teaching by personal example as well as verbal instruction are in accordance with his aesthetic education on the aspect of practicing.Third,Xia Mianzun advocates a kind of artistic and aesthetic living method and attitude of life,which is in accordance with the core of aesthetic education.Xia Mianzun's life's poeticizing theory,on the one hand,it is a highly theorized thought of life,on the other hand,it focus on people's life cogently,it is a kind of aesthetic educational thought that guide people's livings and practices;Xia Mianzun's thoughts of art education is in regard to the knowledges of essence of art,functions of art and functions of art education;digging his aesthetic educational thoughts among his general education thoughts,this are the necessary links to study Xia Mianzun's aesthetic education thoughts.This paper is aiming at studying Xia Mianzun's aesthetic education thoughts,which is to study Xia Mianzun's life's poeticizing theory,thoughts of art education and thoughts of aesthetic education in his general education thoughts,these three are contained by Xia Mianzun's aesthetic education thoughts.