JiKang’s Health Preserving Theory And Its Aesthetic Significance

JiKang is a famous thinker, a writer, an artist, an aesthetician, an expert in health preserving in China’s Wei-jin period. He takes an important part in China ideological history. He is the representative figure of the Bamboo forest metaphysics. He is full of artistic talent, deep philosophic theory, superb intelligence and abundant experience of life. It is very important to further study the theroy and aesthetic of JiKang.My article is writen from a health preserving perspective. There are five parts in the article. The first part is the instruction. It describes the research status of JiKang’s aesthetics and his health preserving theroy. In the second part, I describe the history of health preserving theroy. Next, I analyze the main content of JiKang’s health preserving theroy. It includes five aspects, the affiliation between body and spirit, diet nutrition and far from harmness, abandon the desires or impulses and maintain a cool attitude, live with wisdom and control the feelings, do nothing and everyone is in its natural medium.Through analyzing these contents, I come to conclusion that the health preserving theroy of JiKang is the core of the JiKang’s aesthetic. This concept can be proved in the works of JiKang. In the third part of article, I describe the essential connotation of JiKang’s health preserving theroy in detail and qualify it as a kind of life-aesthetics. Actually it is a theroy on life and values and it answers the question that why a person is living and how he is alive. The goal of the theroy is reaching the highest level of free life, gaining the unworldliness of the heart and the peace of mind. Such health preserving theroy guide JiKang’s life and make him become a great gentleman. In the last part of the article, I point out the significant difference between JiKang’s health preserving theroy and the ancient health preserving theroy, further explain the contemporary aesthetic sense of JiKang’s health preserving theroy and the influence in the classical Chinese aesthetics history. JiKang’s health preserving theroy is in pursuit of the harmony of goodness, beauty and innocence. It also seek for the harmony between man and nature, body and mind, individual and society. JiKang’s poetic ideal of life and everlasting personality constitute the unique aesthetics of life. At the same time, JiKang’s health preserving theroy pay attention to the key problem of aesthetics referenced to the life and reality of human. It contains profound humanistic spirit and shows the sense of ultimate concern to human.