Chinese Primitive Mythology And The Generation Of Aesthetic Consciousness

Modern civilization has met people's material comforts as well as made the isolation between individual and individual, man and nature. The world has become a solitary and despairing desert. Man need return their initial home of sprit. Mythology is the spiritual mother of national cultures. There are much imagination and fiction in myths, but the essence of which is to reflect human social life of certain historic periods. We can sort out and grasp inner sprit and cultural temperament by studying mythology.The thought of mythology can embody the vitality of mythology. The thought of mythology has a very close relation with aesthetic thought.. The former directly bred the latter. Chinese scholars didn't pay enough attention to the question. I want to deeply study the effect that Chinese primitive mythology had on ancient Chinese aesthetic consciousness in the thesis.Firstly, the thesis analyzed the basic characteristic of thought of Chinese primitive mythology by researching many myths that are mainly from Shanghaiking. Chinese primitive mythology can be found to emphasize the ideas of image, emotion, mixture, life and morality. All the features are closely connected, they constitute the whole distinguishing characteristics of Chinese primitive mythology.Secondly, according to the conclusion of the above and the meaning of mother which the thought of Chinese primitive mythology brought to aesthetic consciousness, the thesis went on studying the specific features of aesthetic consciousness from the following five aspects, etc. aesthetic object, psychology, way, meaning and goal of value. After all, ancient Chinese aesthetic consciousness was the products of primitive practical activities. It couldn't be isolated from the goal of utility of amusing gods to require happiness. The thought of Chinese primitive mythology wasn't totally in terms of images and it had some abstract concepts.Chinese primitive mythology not only influenced the generation of ancient aesthetic consciousness, but also conceived some important categories of ancient Chinese aesthetics. Nowadays, the modern civilization of west had great effect to Chinese culture. It's dangerous for a nationality to lose its own root of culture. It's necessary for Chinese to go back the home of culture to obtain the eternal wisdomand power to be sure the direction oi'advancement.