How to Cultivate Children's Healthy Aesthetic Taste

Aesthetic education is to cultivate children's ability to know, appreciate and create beauty. The basic project of aesthetic education is to cultivate children's healthy aesthetic taste from an early age. So, how to cultivate children's healthy aesthetic taste? 1. Beautify children's home environment In order to cultivate children's aesthetic taste in family education, it is best to start from children's side. The first thing to do is to beautify the family environment and keep children in an orderly, clean and fresh air state, and the love of beauty will grow quietly. On the contrary, the clutter at home gives children the impression of vulgarity. This vulgar environment, long-term contact will also "cultivate" children's vulgar mind. A beautiful and elegant room is a landscape painting that you can never get tired of seeing. Even simple houses and furniture can give people an elegant feeling as long as they are properly matched, placed and clean. On the contrary, even high-grade houses and furniture, if the layout is messy and randomly matched, will give people a vulgar feeling. Home decoration and home environment beautification actually reflect people's self-cultivation. Indoor environment plays an important role in cultivating children's aesthetic taste and good living habits. If family conditions permit, parents should help their children create a simple, simple and harmonious personal space suitable for their age and personality. Growing up in this environment, children's aesthetic consciousness will naturally be strengthened, and their sentiments will be cultivated unconsciously. 2. Cultivate children's feelings of loving nature. Nature is an unparalleled teaching material and source of aesthetic education. Nature can give people the pleasure of the soul and the nourishment of life. Such as the moonlight like water, the green vilen, the trickling stream and the gentle weeping willows make people feel quiet and comfortable; The surging sea, rushing rivers and towering mountains make people feel relaxed and happy. Natural mountains and rivers, plants, birds, animals, insects and fish all have beautiful characteristics, so they are all aesthetic objects. We should guide children to nature, enjoy its warmth and feel its aura in the embrace of nature. Children who lose childlike interest are bound to be precocious. Precocity means that life loses its elasticity too early, and it will inevitably lead to premature aging. Precocity means early socialization and early entry into the adult world, so children lose their innocence and curiosity, vitality and imagination. Nowadays, children, especially those in cities, are getting farther and farther away from nature. They have never heard of birds, and they don't know about orioles and egrets. Naturally, they can't appreciate the beautiful spring scenery of "two orioles singing green willows and a row of egrets flying into the sky". They have never been to a mountain village, never seen wood burning and cooking, never heard chickens crowing and dogs crowing, and naturally they can't appreciate the quiet beauty of "a warm and distant village, smoke from a market in Yiyi, dogs barking in a deep alley, and chickens crowing on mulberry trees"; They have never seen the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, so naturally they can't appreciate the magnificence of "flying stones flying through the air and hitting the shore". Parents, teachers, take our children to parks, fields, blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters, flowers and trees, birds, animals, insects and fish. Whether it's the elegant taste of flowing water on a small bridge or the majestic momentum of a river of no return, whether it's a drop of dew on the grass at sunrise or a wisp of kitchen smoke on the Yuan Ye at dusk, our children will be influenced by aesthetics in nature. 3. Guide children to discover and feel the beauty of real life. Looking at life from an aesthetic perspective is to let children feel beauty in ordinary life, and then have the desire to create a better life. Nowadays, many children have lost confidence in life since childhood and feel that everything is "boring". When encountering setbacks, I sighed: "It's so boring, it's really tiring to live!" This is because they have never experienced the beauty of life. Rodin said: "there is no lack of beauty in life, what is lacking is the eyes that find beauty." We should let children know that the beauty of life lies in life itself. At the end of his essay Who is the cutest person, Wei Wei said, "Dear friends, when you board the first tram in the morning and rush to the factory, when you go to the fields with plows on your backs, when you go to school with a cup of soybean milk and schoolbags on your backs, when you sit at your desk and start your day's work, when you put apples in the children's mouths, when you walk with your lover …". The villagers enjoy the cool under the old trees, and the old people are telling ancient legends; Innocent children are playing; The old man smoking a pipe is playing chess; Intimate three aunts and six grandmothers whispered while holding the soles of their shoes; On both sides of the cheerful river are young men and women singing love songs ... this is the beauty of life! 4. Let literature and art nourish children's hearts. The most convenient and effective way to cultivate children's national culture is to let them read China's classical poems. It can be said that Tang and Song poetry is the best entrance to guide people into the cultural palace of China. Cultivating spirit, enlightening literary thinking, cultivating aesthetic taste and enhancing personality realm can all be achieved imperceptibly in reciting Tang poetry and Song poetry. The so-called "bookish spirit" and the so-called "cultural heritage" first depends on how many classical poems are loaded in the chest. Opening a book of pastoral poems, we can see the wonderful customs carefully described by poets: "Under the hedge of picking chrysanthemums, we can see Nanshan leisurely, and the mountains are getting better and better, and the birds return." What a simple and quiet weather! "Peach is full of rain, willow green is full of smoke, flowers are not swept, and birds are still asleep." What a free and easy natural elegance! The farmers who came back with hoes greeted each other cordially. What a comfortable and complacent modality! In the poet's pen, what we see is really a fascinating paradise on earth! Teaching children how to play a musical instrument is not always an aesthetic education. The main purpose of aesthetic education is not to cultivate some skills of playing and singing, but to cultivate people's artistic interest and sentiment. Now some parents let their children learn art with impure motives. They regard mastering artistic skills as a means of making a living and a shortcut to becoming famous and getting married. Once they find that they can't be "great tools", they immediately stop their children's artistic activities, and the phenomenon of quick success and instant benefit is very serious. Some children have just learned the "fur" of art, and parents can't wait to force their children to participate in various "grades". This utilitarian behavior has seriously affected their aesthetic taste. We should let children walk into the palace of art voluntarily with pure childlike innocence. We should let our children quietly approach Li Bai, Du Fu, Tagore, Hugo and Shakespeare in this noisy era, and quietly get close to Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Picasso and Rodin, so that they can quietly indulge in "Moonlight on a Spring River", "Butterfly Lovers", "Blue Danube" and "Pastoral Symphony" ... However, groups of children are obsessed with dazzling cartoons. How easy it is for people to fall into this simple pastime! This is the weakness of human nature and the weakness of children. Our parents' responsibility is to guide their children to elegance and stay away from vulgarity as soon as possible. And this guiding process is the process of aesthetic education. If children have elegant aesthetic taste, they will be delighted with the new green blooming quietly in early spring, cheer for the rising sun in generate in the morning, be shocked by Shakespeare and Cao Xueqin, and be agitated for Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky. It is possible for them to have a pure heart and a broad mind, and to be proud in the journey of life. Healthy aesthetic taste will shape elegant demeanor. Can you believe it?