The Relation Of Confucion Aesthetic Ideology In Pre-Qin And Witchcraft

What was the most important influence of witchcraft on the Confucion in pre-qin was the continuity of it’s utilitarian thinking style,as the same to the Confucion aesthetic in pre-qin.It’s ceremony culture 、 literary views and aesthetic views on natur were deeply effected by this thinking style. Confucius、Mencius and Xunzi as the representatives that leded the transform of the Confucion in Pre-Qin based on the change of social environment,but they couldn’t escape the influence of the means of thinking that arosed in witchcraft culture,that was the reason that the Confucian in Han Dynasty built up an entire cosmology system.The continuity of utilitarian thinking style,largely, because of the rationalization that began“Duke of Zhou reformed the System of Rites ” to the Confucianism built by Confucius,the process didn’t reject witchcraft,but modest reformed.The result was the continuity of utilitarian thinking style that moulded the Confucian who they were.The first chapter discusses the essence of Witchcraft and it’s rationalization. The reason of Ending by “Duke of Zhou reformed the System of Rites ”were more than just it was the beginning of the rationalization, it was the spiritual garden of the Confucion Aesthetic Ideology in Pre-Qin,then start the next.The second chapter research the transform of the Confucion in Pre-Qin form it’s ceremony culture、literary views. The reason for the Confucianist paid more attention to ceremony and literary view wasn’t only its normative role in socity,but the function of moral education that originated in the concepts of witchcraft 、 mutual seeping.Ceremony and literary had mysticism and authority,bacause they were the tools that assisted wizard in the communicion between heaven and earth 、 people and their ancestors,so they had the function of norm and enlightenment.It was as important of the ethics for Confucian and the Charisma for wizard,Humanity as the core idea in Confucianism was the conversion of ancestor worship,so was the successor to wizard.The third chapter mainly from two aspects to discusses the cause of the continuity of utilitarian thinking style, one is the the physical geographyenvironment,the other is the methods of product. Major reason and influencing factors of this rationalization was the physical geography environment in Yangtze River and Yellow River valley,that took advantageous to population concentration、agricultural production and massively magnify,and the wizard used their organization resources to promote the birth and development of civilization,that dominated the history of Confucianism,included it’s aesthetics.