| This article researched the development and character of Daoism aesthetics in Ming and Qing period from different aspects of religion aesthetics, literature aesthetics as well as the aesthetic process of personal religion practices.Besides the preface, this article contains seven chapters. The contents are as follows:In the preface, it initially introduced the meaning and methods of research the Daoism aesthetics ideology, and then showed the social situation and Daoism's situation in Ming and Qing period respectively. With an end, it has a brief comment on the aesthetics ideology of Daoism in Ming and Qing period.From Chapter one to five, the aesthetics ideas of Zhang Yuchu, Zhang Sanfeng, Wang Changyue, Min Yide, and Liu Yiming have been stated briefly.In his works, Wang Changyue showed his pursue to the personal aesthetics and inner aesthetics mood by bring this aesthetics feeling and personality as an ascetic method of inner elixir into a religion ideology system of seeking for becoming a long live celestial being. In Wang Changyue's religion system, the Confucianism's ethic morality has been ultimate and hallowed. "Good", "loyalty ","piety", "kindheartedness", "kindness" and "love" etc.- Secular ethic standardhas been equaled to the Daoism esthetic judgment standard.While Zhang Yuchu urge that Dao is patterned on nature, pureness and inactive are so called beauty. He also emphasized that being a Daoist, a person should have a religion passion of truth without any falsehood and such a pure faith without any impurity. Only unite true, pure and loyalty together, can "the beauty of Dao" be seen in people's distinction. Zhang Yuchu's poetry also expressed feesupreme beauty of Dao. He firstly deduced that "Dao" is the "truth" through arguing and analyze. Aesthetics can not only induce truth, but also make truth be understood. If one's heart is immersed hi "Dao", he can obtain "supreme beauty", "extreme happiness". Furthermore, for his poetry, some are natural and plain, some bring people pure and peaceful feelings that express a Taoist stylish elegant nature and also expressed a unique esthetic life of Taoist.The aesthetics ideology of Zhang Sanfeng has been firstly expressed in his living style. Secondly, Zhang Sanfeng also emphasized "Zhengnian ", holding a supernatural aesthetics absolutely without any utility, taste, and happy mood. Then a person can combine with Dao and become immortal. Furthermore, in Zhang Sanfeng's poetry, some are unconstrained and some are insipidity and quiet. All of them expressed elegance and insipidity of Dao.In many of Min Yide's works, his aesthetics idea has been widely expressed. Firstly, In his comments of Daoism, Min Yide use the religion language to talk about life's value and beauty. It is the supreme beauty in ultimate to seek for "long live" and the health of body. Eternal Dao has brought people spiritual life, such spiritual life is the basic purport of beauty Daoism life. Secondly, Min yide also emphasized the eternal endless beauty. Only melt a person's life into Dao, can a person enjoy "eternal" and "endless" supreme beauty. Thirdly, In Min Yide's understanding, a person's life has spiritual beauty. Fourthly, Min Yide still mentioned the aesthetics feeling and mood of following Dao: quiet and peaceful. Finally, Min Yide still explained the beauty of saving the world.Liu Yiming's Daoism aesthetics ideology can be mainly expressed as follows: one, the beauty of Dao can be expressed on its nature of supernatural, transcendence, mysticism, eternal and absoluteness. "Nihility", "Obscurity" are the original simple beauty of Dao. For the Taoists, returning to the "Nihiliry" of Dao is the way to get eternal life and endless beauty. Thirdly, Liu Yimin understood that life is half in congenital and half in postnatal. Depending on the congenital power, through the postnatal training, a person can return to the true nature. This is Liu Timing's life aesthetics idea. Forth, the postnatal world is a material, temporary untrue world, while the cong...
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