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On The Relationship Between Chinese Traditional Aesthetics Of Leisurely And Carefree Mood And Spiritual Ecology

Posted on:2012-03-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D C WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368991464Subject:Aesthetics
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In view of the drawbacks and deficiencies of the values and lifestyle which modern mainstream society promotes, this paper attempts to provide another alternative value and lifestyle for people as reference which make people's life aesthetic, poetic,tasty and ecological. From the era of modern society background,the author tries to put forward the concept of the aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood that set aside the authoritarian ideology, authoritarian and ascetic tendencies; secondly,it can make up the shortcomings of the labor aesthetics advocated in the traditional Chinese society and the socialist tradition;thirdly, it corrected heroes'aesthetics,the majestic aesthetics bias in both Chinese and Western cultural traditions,while lastly, based on the traditional Chinese culture, it carried out the criticism and correction on the west capitalism culture starting from the individual and the social spiritual ecology. The aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood is a multidisciplinary subject, speaking from the ascription, it may be a part of lives'aesthetics which is flourishing around the world, it conforms to the time's tide that aesthetics goes out of the ivory tower of literature and art to daily lives. However, the paper tries its best to respect for the aesthetic tradition to discuss the question of leisurely and carefree mood within the context of literature and art as far as possible. Furthermore, the aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood is also a part of leisure studies which is splendid sight in our everyday lives and is the essence of leisure and recreation or said that it is the high-level pursuit of cultural dimensions and a symbol of free spirit. At the same time, there is a close relationship between the aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood and the theories of humanity and classes.This paper focus on the question that how the aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood avoid the heavy pressure of political society,to surpass the trend of commercialization, materialization and vulgarization of economic society then to coordinate with steadily ecological society to achieve the pursuit of neoteric ideal of leisurely and carefree mood aesthetics and to attain balance and stability of individual spiritual ecology, and then harvest physical and mental harmony and lives'health.The paper discusses the relationship between the leisurely fantastic beauty of Chinese traditional society and the balance and stability of the spirit of modern society and individual spiritual ecological intensively.It points out that today Chinese inner spiritual ecosystem is out of balance under the strong impact of the western capitalist cultures and their inner world are becoming empty increasingly and lives'meaning losing gradually to induce the production of a lot of mental illness. It is in this social context that the aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood, as a"high-level cycle and low physical energy", seek to concession and harmony in thecompetitive and aggressive era, leisurely and carefree in the mechanical and concentrated era, slowness and leisurely in the speed and efficiency era and reserved exploitation in the outward expansion's era. Therefore, it is a kind of seek to the true state of lives, which is the potential value of the aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood in modern society. Finally, the paper points out that Chinese traditional aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood would go abroad to play a greater role around the world in the background of the over all Chinese cultural comprehensive renaissance.
Keywords/Search Tags:the aesthetics of leisurely and carefree mood, Chinese traditional culture, modern society, spiritual ecology
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