Abstract: The experiment was designed to study the emotion judgement and imagination level in Chinese children at the age of 3 to 10 after music appreciation.The results showed that,for children significant differences appeared in accuracy of judgement of happiness and sadness;in emotion judgement,the accuracy rate in happiness was higher than in sadness for preschool children;after the children began to study in primary school,the accuracy in judging sadness increased rapidly;the imagination index increased slowly as they grew;the number of accurate judgement is significantly correlated to the number of imagination-producing.

Key words: children, emotion, judgement, music appriciation, imagination index