A Study On The Interpretation Process Of Aesthetic Thought In The Past Hundred Years

"Casual Sentiments and Occasions" is one of the most important works of Li Yu,a dramatist and aesthetician in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.It has a history of more than 300 years since its publication.More than 300 years of people’s attention and research on him have never stopped.Although he also suffered from different degrees of neglect during this period,on the whole,"Casual Sentiments and Occasions" is a hot topic in academic circles.In the past hundred years,with the changes of the cultural context of the times,the academic circles have gradually expanded their attention and interpretation of "Casual Sentiments and Occasions".This article focuses on the history of the interpretation of aesthetic thoughts in the past hundred years of "Casual Love" and combs the criticism,research and interpretation of "Casual Love" in the past hundred years from the perspective of literary aesthetics.Based on the diachronic characteristics of the modern academic evaluation and interpretation of the book,this paper divides the research history of the 100-year "Casual Love and Occasion" into three stages,and the main part of Wen Zhang is centered on these three stages.The first part is a summary of the study of "Casual Sentiments" before the New Culture Movement to the founding of the People’s Republic of China.At the beginning of the 20 th century,western modern academic thoughts poured into China one after another,and a large number of new theories and methods from the west brought academic research into a new stage.Under the background of the "literary revolution",the complete and systematic drama theory in "Casual Sentiments and Occasions" makes it begin to receive new attention and enter into the study of the theoretical history of Chinese drama.Then Lin Yutang and Zhou Zuoren keenly captured the artistic value of life philosophy in "Casual Love and Occasion",which also triggered Lu Xun’s evaluation of "help literature".The second part is the interpretation of "Casual Sentiments" from the founding of the People’s Republic of China to 1997.This part is divided into two stages.The previous stage was from the founding of the People’s Republic of China to the end of the Cultural Revolution.At this stage,the academic research on "Casual Sending" is at a low ebb.During this period,"Casual Occasion" was still classified as "help literature" and the theme of "art of life" has been basically diluted,with only a few studies focusing on the drama theory of "Casual Occasion".The second stage is from reform and opening up to 1997.At this stage,the research on "Casual Sending" has made a major breakthrough.Under the influence of the academic background of "aesthetic craze",the "casual mood accidentally sent" has undergone a change of identity,from opera theory to aesthetic works.Under the research and interpretation of a group of literary and artistic aestheticians such as Du Shuying and Ye Lang,"Casual Sentiments and Occasions" began to really enter the research of Chinese classical aesthetics.In the third part,in the 1990 s,the development of aesthetics entered the transition period,and the focus of aesthetics research shifted from art to life.In the context of "aestheticization of daily life",the artistic concept and interest of life in "Casual Love and Occasion" just fit the theme of the times.The research on garden aesthetics,appearance aesthetics,leisure aesthetics,health preserving aesthetics,etc.has opened up the research field of "leisure occasional posting" and enriched and stereoscopic the research.Finally,combining the research characteristics of these three stages,the author tries to summarize the reasons and characteristics of the aesthetic interpretation history of "Casual Love and Occasion" in the past 100 years,and then to spy out the changes of academic research concepts and methods in the past 100 years.