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Exploring the Teaching Path of “Revitalizing” Traditional Chinese Music in University Public Elective Courses from the Perspective of Cultural Confidence

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Jing Yang

Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing 312000, Zhejiang, China.

*Corresponding author: Jing Yang

Published: November 21,2025

Abstract

In the current era of firm cultural confidence and deepening aesthetic education reform, the teaching of traditional Chinese music in public elective courses in universities faces an urgent need to transform from knowledge transmission to value guidance and life inheritance. This article proposes the core concept of “activating” teaching to address the current difficulties in teaching practice, such as low student interest, outdated teaching content and methods, and insufficient interpretation of cultural spirit. The research aims to explore how to use diverse strategies such as situational immersion, modern technology empowerment, creative practice, and Sino-Western dialogue to transcend static text and sound in ancient Chinese traditional music and reintegrate it into the aesthetic experience and cultural life of contemporary college students. Practice has shown that this “activation” path can effectively stimulate the learning drive of non-professional students, guide them to deeply perceive the beauty of traditional music forms, and deeply understand and identify with the national spirit and philosophical wisdom behind them, thus providing a teaching paradigm for solidly building cultural confidence in general education.

Keywords

Cultural confidence; Chinese traditional music; Activate teaching; Public elective courses; Teaching reform

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Exploring the Teaching Path of “Revitalizing” Traditional Chinese Music in University Public Elective Courses from the Perspective of Cultural Confidence

How to cite this paper: Jing Yang. (2025) Exploring the Teaching Path of “Revitalizing” Traditional Chinese Music in University Public Elective Courses from the Perspective of Cultural Confidence. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 9(10), 2048-2057.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2025.10.034