The View Of Life Aesthetics

Part OneThere are two extremely important theories in Shen Congwen's works—Living and Being. And his basic structure of life is considered as the compound of living and being. Human live when they are being, or they are not different from animals and embody brutalization. Being makes they get rid of unsophisticated brutalization and it infers to humanity whose reason for being human being and divinity which surpass specific living, also ideality. Humanity and divinity are tow peaces in the development of life. The life progress totally from humanity to divinity, which means it is the process transferring from original humanity which agrees to the nature to the top sublimation.Part Two(1) Nature of Living: Love and BeautyShen Congwen believes in life-force. In his point of view, the nature of living are love and beauty. Love refers to loving life, solicituding human being and beauty means the beauty of divinity in the human life which is above humanity. The life is flourishing when full of love and beauty and it shrinks when lack of them. During the period of Neo-literature love and beauties that presented that there should be them in the life were two points. At that time, they are only two different tools. And the following Shen Congwen syncretized them as a unity. This thinking is considered the part of basic attribute of life and culture intension of humanity. Both love and beauty are a harmony of life, which is the human harmony itself, the harmony between...