| Li Liufang was a painter and literary person in the late MingDynasty.He was one of the representatives of the "Xin’an Painting School" during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and one of the "four scholars of Jiading " that is a poetry school in the late Ming Dynasty.As far as the existing data is concerned,Li Liufang’s literary works are known for his essay writings.Among them,the most famous is the title.His literary works contains 179 essays.The subjects are diverse,well-formed,and literary,which truly reflects his ideological character and his understanding of the natural and life of the universe.Li Liufang’s essays are deeply influenced by their personality,painting and calligraphy ideas,and Chinese traditional cultural thoughts,presenting its unique aesthetic qualities.At present,academic circles have made some achievements in the study of Li Liufang’s essay.However,the research on the aesthetic character of his essay is still a weak link.He is a painter and a literary person too.Li Liufang has both the vision of a painter and the literati’s sensibility.His essay text also benefits from the supplement of the space arts such as prose and space art.Looking at Li Liufang’s sketches,his aesthetic art form is not limited to literary forms.He has noticed the fact that the relation of literature and painting,as well as the differences of the artistic forms of literature and painting.Its essays use the form of drawing arts,and from the standpoint of separation and composition,He descripts the painting and deepens the meaning of frame with interval and composition.Secondly,he transformates the art form of painting to theform of literary creation The simple and central form of simplified painting and the reduced form of the art of painting were used to translate the essays into concise and fluent texts and inexhaustible literature.The form conveys a unique aesthetic charm.As an important concept of Chinese ancient aesthetics,Li Liufang has created various aesthetic moods in his essays,including the beauty and the right of “all the sights are emotion” expressed from the emotion of his own individual.The beauty of ethereal and silent dhyana experienced by the essence of the universe’s life.Its pursuit of the aesthetic conception reflects the essence of life.Due to the ancient Chinese philosophy of "combination of nature and humanity" and the accumulation of traditional culture,one of the core categories of the ecological consciousness of homeland consciousness has become a pan-cultural phenomenon in ancient Chinese literature.Li Liufang is no exception.He looks for spiritual homes in the real world.and.He uses practices outwards and makes the feast of Yagai as his habitat for the soul.He returns to himself and writes in the essays using the “boat” as the main aesthetic imagery to write his spiritual home.The complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism,as the backbone and basic clues of Chinese thought,has greatly influenced the psychological structure of Chinese literati.The Taoist esthetic ideology led to Li Liufang’s essays showing the aesthetic ideals of the outer the Confucianists inner Taoists.What’s more,the confluence of the Confucianists and Taoists led to the secularization of both sides,which resulted in Li Liufang’s essay writing also brought a secular aesthetic.taste.Although there are still limitations in Li Liufang’s essay,it is commendable that he can draw on the essence of Chinese traditional philosophy,literary paintings and ancient Chinese aesthetics,making his works exhibit unique aesthetic qualities.It can be said that his essay is exactly the mapping of his soul.The appearance of his personality is self-contained and very true. |