In Hotan Jiayi Township, Xinjiang, children use the exterior walls of buildings as canvas to paint colors for the Kunlun Mountains in their hearts; In Nanhua County, Yunnan Province, students stare at screens and follow the older brothers and sisters of the Southeast University Graduate Support Team thousands of miles away, step by step assembling solar powered car models; In the fields of Ziyuan County, Guangxi, middle school students and graduate students working side by side, shoveling soil and water, planting saplings, and gaining a new understanding of land and labor... Today, college student volunteer teaching has gone beyond traditional classroom knowledge transmission and is nourishing the spiritual world of rural children with richer dimensions such as art education, technology, labor, and sports, opening up broader spaces for their growth. These diverse social practices have expanded the breadth and depth of rural education, and injected a continuous stream of youthful energy into rural revitalization. They long for a broad vision and spiritual nourishment. New school buildings are rising from the ground, multimedia devices are entering the classroom, and artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in teaching... In recent years, the hardware of rural education in China has been continuously upgraded. However, sitting in the bright classroom, how can the curiosity and longing for the "world beyond the mountains" in the eyes of the children be satisfied? Zhang Kaibin, deputy director of the Film and Television Drama Education Research Center of Zhejiang Normal University, told the reporter that some rural children lack parental companionship when growing up. The gap between the elderly left behind and their grandchildren is formed due to intergenerational differences, which makes it difficult to fully meet the emotional needs of children in their hearts. The Internet has become the first choice to fill the emotional gap. Short videos, online games, social software and other digital content have penetrated into the daily lives of young people in depth. "When a huge amount of online information is coming, rural teenagers generally lack the necessary screening, screening and understanding abilities. This leads to two prominent problems. One is that fragmented and entertaining content tends to make teenagers addicted to shallow stimuli, gradually weakening their ability to think deeply; the other is that the uneven values in the online environment may impact their immature value cognition system, and even affect their mental health development." The 2024 Report on Mental Health of Rural Students in Less Developed Areas of China issued by the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and others shows that 21.5% of rural students are at risk of mild depression, and 8.1% of rural students are at risk of high depression, which is higher than the national average level of teenagers. Correspondingly, the education supply in rural schools is still insufficient. The allocation of art education teachers with "one person, multiple positions", the lack of media literacy courses, and the weak cultivation of scientific practice and labor skills all constrain the comprehensive development of rural education. Under the impact of the exam oriented education concept, the development of educational forms such as aesthetic education and labor education that serve the comprehensive development of students' personalities has been relatively slow. Rural children not only crave textbook knowledge, but also broaden their horizons, nourish their spirit, and develop the ability to face the future. If the shortcomings of the latter are not timely addressed, it is like a missing piece in the 'spiritual puzzle', "said Ma Jing, the chairman of the Education and Training Committee of the China Radio and Television Social Organization Federation, highlighting the key to the problem. Let the light of aesthetic education illuminate the soul and awaken potential. The volunteer teaching team from universities is providing new strength to fill this "spiritual puzzle". The recently released movie 'Music Class' has received widespread praise from audiences, especially students. Its character prototype is Xiao Huiwen, the recipient of the "Most Beautiful Teacher" award in 2025. In 2017, Xiao Huiwen, who graduated from the Music Education major at Huizhou University, gave up her job in the city and chose to teach in a remote mountain village. He pioneered a distinctive bamboo flute teaching course, leading over 600 children to make and play flutes over the course of eight years, appearing on various competition stages, and cultivating more than 20 students who have won awards in provincial and municipal art competitions. The story of Xiao Huiwen is a vivid portrayal of the continuous improvement of rural aesthetic education. Back then, a person's perseverance was like a deeply buried seed, blooming with a flower of hope in the soil; Nowadays, more and more college students are taking over the "art education relay baton" from Xiao Huiwen, carrying colors, notes, and creativity into the mountains and countryside, sowing the seeds of beauty with youthful enthusiasm and professional competence. Dong Yexin, a master's student at Zhejiang Normal University, is one of the representatives. When she was teaching in Longzhou County, Guangxi, she leveraged the professional expertise of music teacher trainees, turning dry music theory knowledge into vivid images and gestures, enabling high school students to go from not understanding sheet music to mastering interval chords, enabling high school students to sight sing simplified sheet music, and teaching high school students to use chords as accompaniment for nursery rhymes. Watching students go from being shy to singing confidently, from being afraid to express themselves to being willing to create, I feel the most touching power of aesthetic education, "she said emotionally. In recent years, there has been a continuous emergence of college students like Dong Yexin who have devoted themselves to rural aesthetic education through programs such as the Chinese Youth Volunteer Graduate Teaching Team and the Western Volunteer Service Program for College Students. Most of them come from art related majors such as music, art, and drama, bringing systematic art courses to rural schools and lighting up the artistic sky of rural children with professionalism and enthusiasm. In addition to large-scale teaching support projects, more characteristic aesthetic education actions are spontaneously organized by universities based on their own characteristics, such as sparks gradually lighting up on the land of China. The "Beautiful Kunlun" Xinjiang Rural Art Education Revitalization Project of the School of Arts at Qingdao University covers more than 20 villages, not only assisting in the construction of the first rural art museum and library in southern Xinjiang, donating more than 500 art works and more than 30000 books, but also integrating art education into various forms such as Mandarin promotion, ancient poetry appreciation, Chinese calligraphy, and intangible cultural heritage experience, bringing tangible cultural resources to children. In Nanhua, Yunnan, volunteers from Southeast University embarked on an exploration journey of the integration of science and art for 446 primary school students from 9 local township schools through the "Zhihua Heart" township school science and art education action. Based on online cloud classrooms, volunteers have designed a series of themed courses. From introducing ecological tanks in the "Ecological Environmental Protection" class, allowing children to appreciate the beauty of nature, to using brushes to depict the poetry of solar terms in the "Summer Scroll" class, deepening children's understanding of traditional culture... Rich and exciting courses integrate the perception and creation of beauty into scientific cognition, allowing children to explore natural laws while cultivating aesthetic vision and artistic expression ability. Multidimensional support injects new vitality into rural revitalization. The value brought by university teaching support teams to rural education goes far beyond the field of aesthetic education. In broader dimensions such as science education, labor practice, sports and health, and media literacy, volunteer teams in universities are bringing a new trend to rural education with their professional competence and innovative ideas. In Longzhou County, Guangxi, the Graduate Teaching Support Team of Zhejiang Normal University integrates cutting-edge technology into daily teaching. Members of the teaching support group, Zhou Zehua and Shen Ke, used scientific drawing and data analysis software to concretely interpret abstract scientific concepts, effectively filling the gaps in experimental teaching and technology education in rural schools. Labor education also demonstrates innovative vitality. Volunteer Xu Yidan, majoring in Marxist theory, led students into the fields to gain an on-site understanding of the production process of lotus root powder. He also organized a "simulated agricultural assistance live broadcast" where students transformed into anchors to promote local specialties. This immersive labor education not only exercises students' practical abilities, but also allows them to deeply appreciate the value of labor and the development potential of their hometown, further stimulating their emotional identification with loving and building their hometown. 'We should apply the skills we have learned to our hometown' has become a common aspiration among many students after participating. Physical education is also revitalized through professional empowerment. The School of Physical Education at Qingdao University of Science and Technology has formed a professional team to carry out sports teaching support in Xingqing District, Ningxia, Mengyin County and other places, to teach professional training methods to local schools. The "Thousand Teachers and Hundred Schools" Sports Support Teaching Action in Hubei Province organized outstanding sports majors from Hubei University for Nationalities, Hanjiang Normal University and other universities to support grassroots education. Volunteers not only teach children sports skills such as basketball, football, and volleyball, but also focus on cultivating students' sportsmanship of daring to strive and being positive, promoting the comprehensive physical and mental development of young people. This multidimensional teaching practice has a profound impact on the students themselves. Although my time as a volunteer teacher is short, it has been a brilliant moment in my life, "said Gao Miaotong, a master's student at the School of Arts, Sun Yat sen University." Three years as a volunteer teacher, a lifetime of self teaching. In the process of devoting myself to rural education, I deeply understand that what society needs today is versatile talents with multiple abilities. This experience inspires me to constantly learn new knowledge and expand new abilities. From the laboratory to the fields, from the digital world to sports fields, university volunteer teaching is injecting new vitality into rural education through diversified professional practices. These young figures not only convey knowledge, but also sow hope, giving rural children the opportunity for comprehensive development and bravely pursuing their dreams in the tide of the times. And the volunteer teaching students have also grown in this field of hope, clarified their responsibilities, and let their youth shine brightly in dedication. (New Society)