From "Brilliance Emitted From Empty Room" To "Uppermost Beauty And Happiness"

The proposition "Brilliance is emitted from Empty room" is an entrance to the Aesthetics of Zhuang Zi. The harmonization of Tao's nothingness and heart's nothingness is a significant subject in the history of Chinese Aesthetics. Nothingness and Silence as an important concept of Chinese classical art theories is a mental presupposition ,which influences such a great deal of theorists as Lu Ji, Zong Bing, Liu Xie etc. In the text of Zhuang Zi, "Brilliance " is connected with "simplicity" . The essence of rustic and native beauty that is shown by "Brilliance" is naturalness . The ideal of beauty has affected the artistic practice persistently. "Roaming" is the aesthetic manner selected by Zhuang Zi. "Roaming in the Tao" includes negation and transform, which negate knowledge and morality and transform common feeling to native reason. The two parts are uniform. Thus, characteristic of aesthetic psychology is exceeding utility and non-logic. "Do a job with skill and ease" turns mental condition to reality, which illuminate the artistic producing process from necessity to freedom. The aesthetic mental peak is the "Uppermost beauty and happiness". It is a bourn of "Harmonization of nature and human" and "Forgetting all of things and self. The uppermost beauty is in the heaven and earth, which manifests the major idea of Zhuang Zi's aesthetics. The uppermost happiness exceeds worldly pleasure of sense organ and ascends to the higher bourn which permeates the happiness with natural life. The three taches including the nothingness and silence as mental precondition, roaming as the practical manner, the uppermost beauty and happiness as the highest bourn adequately explain the main idea of Zhuang Zi's aesthetics——attaching importance to nature and true feelings.