Against the backdrop of the cultural power strategy, the living heritage of traditional culture faces dual dilemmas of "loss of skills" and "spiritual discontinuity". As the main base for cultivating technical and skilled talents, higher vocational education's art education system possesses both "vocational" and "humanistic" attributes, providing a new path for the inheritance of traditional culture. This article explores the theoretical logic of how higher vocational art education empowers the living heritage of traditional culture from a two-dimensional perspective of "skills - spirit", by analyzing the limitations of traditional inheritance models and revealing the core role of art education in "skill activation", "value reconstruction", and "subjective identification". Combining constructivist learning theory and situational cognition theory, it constructs a three-stage education mechanism of "cognition - practice - internalization"; ultimately proposing a transformation path to achieve the transition from "static protection" to "dynamic growth" of traditional culture with art education as a link. The study believes that higher vocational art education needs to break through the mental set of "skill training", integrate aesthetic experience into the entire process of skill inheritance, and promote the spiritual regeneration and ecological continuity of traditional culture in contemporary contexts.
Chen Teng (Wed,) studied this question.