Four O'clock The Aesthetic Significance

This paper attempts to research the special topic of "SISHI" (a special concept of ancient Chinese for the four seasons) in perspective of Aesthetics.In ancient China, "SISHI" is rich in aesthetic connotation .Rhythm of "SISHI" is a typical example of life rhythm, and aesthetics is a rhythm induction of life, so rhythm induction of "SISHI" has important aesthetic significance, and bring a broad and profound influence toChinese classical arts.The paper includes the preamble, the body of the four chapters and the conclusion. The preamble outlined to the significance and the status quo of aesthetic research on "SISHI", how to think and write the paper, and the lack and innovation.The body includes the following four chapters:Chapter one. The philosophical significance of "SISHI" .In classical Chinese philosophy, "SISHI" is an important category, the element and the tectonic model of the universe and everything and the basic law that governing the operation of the universe, "SISHI" combined with the "Yin and Yang" and Five Elements formed a Scheme that covered all universe in "Yue Ling" . The concept of time and space in ancient Chinese is complex.Chapter two. "SISHI" and aesthetic. From a broader perspective on life, there is a life in everything in natural world. Rhythm is a basic characteristic of life, art is a life too, and rhythm is the soul of art. "SISHI" is the most typical rhythm of life, the communication inter-media between heaven and human. There is a structural homology relationship between the human and the aesthetic object, and there is an induction between the subject rhythm system and object rhythm system. Aesthetics is an induction of life rhythm ,"sympathy" of the rhythm of life between the subject and the object.Chapter three. "SISHI" and classical Chinese art. "SISHI" phenomena organically combine with specific emotions, while have the value of a particular attribute and metaphysical implication, constitute a distinct ethnic characteristics "SISHI" image system. The tact of Bi and Xing and analogical thinking makes the implication of "SISHI" image particularly rich. Ancient Chinese have the aesthetic complex to feel about the seasons and thus worry about the life. From feeling the seasons of nature, through thinking the "seasons" of history and social, then come into the worrying about the "seasons" of life and the universe. "reification" is an integration of the life rhythm of the aesthetic subject and aesthetic object, an integration of the seasons of nature and the "seasons" of history and social and the "seasons" of the life and universe, and thus is the highest aesthetic realm .Chinese classical art has relatively permanent "SISHI" lyrical mode. Many themes of the classic works of art are based on"SISHI", "SISHI" also has an important influence on the structure of the plot in Chinese classical art. In the narrative works , incidents between men and women often occur in the spring, acacia and separation between men and women are usually arranged in spring and autumn, and some concepts of the "SISHI" are often the key point for plot development. The festival related to "SISHI" also provides a background for the narrative works with the time, space and folk. The influence on some major works by "SISHI" concept is complicated and profound. Of course, "SISHI" concept also has negative influence on the classical Chinese art, which are mainly reflected on the trend of pattern and strain interpretation.Chapter four. The national difference in concept of the four seasons, the difference of ecological environment, the emotional value system, and the aesthetic subject, cause the difference of aesthetic concept of ethnic groups, which is reflected in the content and form of arts.Conclusion intended to illustrate that the glories of the ancient Chinese art ,which are related to the conception of "SISHI", has passed, and the television and multimedia era has arrived, but it make no sense that the ancient conception of "SISHI" has lose its aesthetic significance, which is still shown now in the video and multimedia. These works still need help from the aesthetic connotation of "SISHI" to build an image, create a mood, and contrast atmosphere. More importantly, the concept of acclimate to the life rhythm of "SISHI" has become a modern aesthetic spirit lurking in the various fields.