Rhythmic gymnastics is known as "artistic ballet", which is not only artistic, but also rhythmic. Athletes make various wonderful movements with music, so that the audience can get more beautiful experiences in the process. However, in reality, to improve the artistic expression of rhythmic gymnasts, it not only requires athletes to have high musical literacy, but also poses a big challenge to their comprehensive literacy and cultural background.

First, we should pay attention to cultivating athletes' cultural literacy and promote their artistic perception.

For a person's comprehensive literacy, cultural literacy is a very important part, which is also a prerequisite for the development of other qualities of athletes. For rhythmic gymnasts, the formation of artistic expression is not an overnight process, but an ability formed in the process of continuous summary, internalization and accumulation, which is a comprehensive embodiment of rhythmic gymnasts' musical literacy, cultural literacy, aesthetic literacy, artistic accomplishment and sports literacy. The formation of these qualities should be based on the strong cultural qualities of rhythmic gymnasts, which is a prerequisite for improving artistic expression of rhythmic gymnasts.

Second, we should pay attention to the cultivation of athletes' musical literacy and realize the perfect unity of "people, music and movements"

Music is a very important part of rhythmic gymnastics. If we want to fully display the rhythmic beauty and rhythmic beauty of rhythmic gymnastics, we must support it. It can be said that the vitality and unique charm of rhythmic gymnastics are largely endowed by music. At the same time, rhythmic gymnasts' perception and understanding of music will also have a very important impact on the formation of their artistic expression. Only when rhythmic gymnasts fully understand the thoughts and feelings expressed by music can their performances have stronger appeal.

Third, we should pay attention to cultivating athletes' comprehensive literacy and lay a good foundation for improving their artistic expression.

In order to achieve better results, rhythmic gymnasts should not only have a full grasp of the relevant skills of gymnastics, but also have a necessary grasp of martial arts, folk dance, ballet, acrobatics, drama and other aspects. Therefore, it can be said that the formation of rhythmic gymnasts' sports literacy is actually a process of comprehensive development. It needs to integrate other artistic forms on the basis of special training for rhythmic gymnasts, and then effectively promote the improvement of the comprehensive quality of rhythmic gymnasts. As an important way to show the comprehensive quality of rhythmic gymnasts, artistic expression is of great significance to the development of rhythmic gymnasts.