On Cai Yuanpei Thought And Chinese Music Education

In music education domain, people have insufficient cognitive ability on aesthetic education.For example, aesthetic education was only interpreted as art education or technology layer of artstudies. But the key factor of aesthetic education is to achieve the comprehensive development ofpeople. Music education is a main part of development of aesthetic education. In this paper, westudied the development of modern music education in China and analyzed the thought of YuanpeiCai. As the ideologist who was proficient at Chinese classic culture and western culture spirit, Caidevoted most of her career to spread thought of aesthetic education and improving thedevelopment of education, especially music education. Even now, analyzing of the thought ofaesthetic education presented by Cai have value of the times and practical significance. This paperresearched the thought of aesthetic education presented by Cai and combined it with the demandsof the age. The inheritance of the thought is meaningful for the training and shaping of an idealpersonality of students.