History and the world are created by people. History education should teach students how to have historical thinking and interpret history from different positions. So teachers need to teach students how to become the pioneers of historical development. In traditional historical teaching, students are passive recipients of accepted knowledge, rather than positive subjects who posess historical thinking and the local identity. The concept of historical empathy teaching encourages students to imagine the feelings of historical figures according to historical sources. Students realize the contemporary impression by understanding, analyzing, and judging the historical causation. The point is the same with the spirit of teaching of the aesthetic view. However, in the past there were some limitations in historical empathy teaching . In this paper, the fifth grade students are the subjects of Taiwan history action research for the duration of one semester. The purpose is to help students achieve historical empathy from the aesthetic view. The results of study suggest that the aesthetic view can offer not only the abundant experiences for historical empathy teaching, but also can expand cognition, develop local identities, and improve the creativity. Finally, the study proposes three types of historical empathy teaching from the aesthetic view.