National identity education is an important guarantee for the construction of a modern nation-state,and it is also an important way for individuals to relate to the country and gain the meaning of life.Aesthetic education has the attributes of emotional activation,symbolic representation and dynamic practice.It is an important perceptual education path to govern aesthetic chaos and cultivate national identity.Chinese aesthetic education has rich historical experience in shaping national identity.In ancient times,the world order was established with the ritual and music culture;in modem times,the combination of Chinese and world aesthetics and culture has been explored to establish a nation-state;in contemporary times,a Chinese characteristic aesthetic education program with the mission of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has been formed.On the new era,aesthetic education should shape national memory and activate the consciousness of the Chinese nation community,display the national image and promote the aesthetic education practice of national identity,educate people with aesthetics and cultivate confident and self-reliant Chinese people,so as to give full play to the perceptual education power of aesthetic education in cultivating national identity.
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