An Exploration for Happiness through Education: The Value of Humanities in Chinese Fine Arts Courses

Abstract

This paper explores and unpacks the connections between humanities, fine arts education, and happiness. The domain is within China. When doing this, the relevant definitions, interpretations, and origins must be revealed. So representative researchers previous works are referred to for better understanding and accuracy. Level by level, it manifests that humanities education has excellent value for ones happiness which cannot be easily ignored. And from the relevant academic works, fine arts education, as one form of arts education (the other ones will not be discussed in this paper), is supposed to be a very effective way to deliver humanities education. But in many cases in China, acceptable arts courses didnt perform perfectly regarding this particular issue. Aesthetics abilities are highlighted in discussions on Chinese acceptable arts courses. However, educators or researchers use this phrase without deep insight or comprehensive understanding. The paper also tackles this one and builds the bridge from aesthetics to human happiness.