Qing Dynasty School Aesthetics In The Study

Aesthetics in Qing Dynasty is a weak sector in the study of Chinese esthetics for a long time. And it is nearly a bran-new proposition to study it with the view of Practical Science. We consider that the ethos in Qing Dynasty could be generalized as "Practical Science". Its aesthetic feather is highly to praise practice and despise nonentity. Aesthetics of Qing Dynasty can be defined as either Aesthetics of Practical Science, or aesthetics with practical essence.Today's argument mainly arose from different concepts about practical science. We define that Practical Science was founded as an incompact ethos inner Confucians with similar value, during its struggle with Metaphysics, Buddhism and even with the nonentity thought arose from those misinterpret Confucians. It accepted that either our world and we ourselves are concrete, the personality development is possible and feasible, the outer world could be cognized and utilized, our psychic destination is within our live life, or managed to solve the people and nation's difficulties, and rebuilt Confucian orthodoxy, political and learning orthodoxy. So the starting point of Chinese Practical Science could be upward to Original Confucianism. And Practical Science in Qing Dynasty was the most mature and full-scale period. It was also the transitional period to Chinese Practical Science from the ancient to the modern new times.Firstly we mainly study the social situation, central connotation of Practical science in Qing Dynasty, and its relation with aesthetics. We considered that it contained the chaos substantialism, the morals substantialism, the morals consummating theory, the historiography administering theory, or administering affairs theory and the study of natural phenomenon etc. Our opinion is that the Aesthetics of Practical Science in Qing Dynasty involved not only Confucianism Practical Science Aesthetics as its mainstay, but much aesthetics of unpractical science which with Practical Science's influence. As a tendency and value tropism, Practical Science was not only a signify sector in the history of Confucianism, its practical essence swept into aesthetics, art and many other fields under the current of traditional classical aesthetics, such as their concern of the beauty of life and the beauty of living, their retreat from aesthetical profundity. Otherwise, aesthetics of Practical Science in Qing Dynasty turned into some sort of ending force to Chinese classic aesthetics and Confucianism aesthetics, for instance, the accomplishment of the aesthetic gasify theory, the end of the moralization with poem and art theory, and the clear up of the artistic conception.The second part is mainly about the aesthetics of chaos ontology of practical science in Qing Dynasty, named as the exploration of the chaos substantialism, thefoundation of life aesthetics with the core of vitality Yin and Yang, its deepening influence in aesthetics. The third part is about the foundation of the morality ontology aesthetics. Morality refers to natural rules, as well as social ethics. It represents their eager for kind and their thirsty for the beauty of the universe, the perfect of personality and the harmonious of human society.In the last part, we'll turn over to scan the aesthetics of Practical Science in Qing Dynasty. Aesthetics in Qing Dynasty clearly drew back from the aesthetics level of Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Song and Ming dynasties. For the people of Qing looked at everything with a point of practical view, their aesthetical soul was atrophied, the function of their aesthetical organs was weakened.With the degeneration of Confucianism, Practical Science in Qing Dynasty finally translated into later-day science, and Chinese classic aesthetics likewise translated into later-day aesthetics.