Ancient Chinese Aesthetic Spirit

The article is a work expounding the Chinese ancient aesthetic thoughts system , which is divided into three parts. The first and the second are on beauty, while the third is on sense of beauty. In the theories of beauty, the former part discusses the Chinese ancient prevalence points on the essence of beauty, and the later part discusses the different points about beauty from the Confucian school, Taoism school and Buddhism. In the Chinese ancient opinion, the satisfied tease is regarded as beauty, while the beauty is not supposed to be the patent of vision and sense of hearing. The tease of beauty comes from not only objective forms but also materialization of hearts ideas, specially morality ideas. In the reification of hearts ideas and moral ideas , subjects and objects strike a responsive chord by their same structure , which give birth to beauty. The feature of the Chinese ancient theory of beauty decides the characteristic of the theory about the sense of beauty . Beauty is considered as a sort of tease , so sense of beauty is called as tasting. Heart is supposed to be a sort of beauty, so the way of appreciating beauty must be to watch with ones heart. Morality is regarded as beauty , so the state of heart about getting beauty must be empty and quiet. In addition , the work analyses closely the differences between the theories of beauty from the Confucian school, Taoism school and Buddhism. The Confucian school considers the natural symbol of morality , the feelings, the harmony and the form conforming with goals as the beauty . Taoism school regards empty, wonderful , light , soft , natural , vitality, agreeable as the beautiful . Buddhism supposes empty, quiet , death and their symbols such as circle and light to be beautiful, while supposing allphenomenon of the material beauty to be unreal illusions.