Qin Heaven Concept Changes And Aesthetic Sense Of Deliberation

Pre-qin is an important period of ancient Chinese aesthetics, in which both life experience and sub-aesthetic category were brewing. This article is gonging to tease and dig the course from the changing of concepts "Tian" and "Ren", around which the brewing was running.In barbarism society, the primitive had not the concept of "Tian" and "Ren", and he experienced himself as an integral life contact with other creature. So the cultural mode of "Tian Ren He Yi" had been laid a foundation.In Shang Dynasty, "Di" appeared. It was the avatar of natural power, which was regarded as contrary and oppressor by human being. And human experienced himself with "Sheng", carnal substance and multiply, so that it had been formed in the classical aesthetics and the traditional culture that incline to "Sheng".In the West Zhou, "Tian" appeared. It was the origin of human with giving them "Ming" to send life and moral to them. Human caught the "Tian Ming" through "De" which meant acting with self-conscious. So human had the conscious of subject and practice, and had left behind the taste inclining moral.In the Spring and Autumn Period and early Warring States Period, the concept of "Tao" was formed. And almost every thinker had his "Tao", which meant the possibilities of human being were diversified. The life experience of "Tao" was unite of diverse, interlace of infinity and limit, and endless change. At last "Tao" had been the core of classical aesthetics. At the time, personality taste was appeared.In the middle of Warring States Period, Meng Zi and Zhuang Zi had done the category "Xin", which meant human infinitive activity. With "Xin", human could reach the life freedom, "Tian", and experience the syncretism of "Xin" and "Tian" which was the greatest bourn both life and aesthetics. At the time "Qi" was done too, which was an important category in classical aesthetics.At the late Warring States Period Xun Zi and Han Fei respectively advanced "Qun" and "Li", which brought human socializing life experience. There was demand of universal form in the socialization that rigidified the life taste. At last, the brewing of aesthetics conscious stopped.