On Gehong's Theory Of "Immortality-Beauty"

Weijin Gehong is a very important person in the Chinese Taoist and aesthetic culture history. He successfully transformed the Taoist's "Tao-Beauty" to Taoistic "Tao-Beauty", namely "immortality-Beauty", and combined the faith of "Tao" with the pursuit of "Beauty", which became the key point of Taoistic aesthetics. Gehong's way of showing the "immortality-Beauty" was closely connected with his being of a Taoist.There are three parts in this paper. In the first part, I mainly discuss how Gehong transformed the Taoist's "Tao-Beauty" to "immorality -Beauty" under the Taoist— Taoistic background and expressed the meaning that "the most beautiful being is human being".The second part is the keystone of the whole paper. From "living" "true" "good" "change" , "wander" and "enjoy" these six aspects, I indicate how the "immortality-Beauty" takes the dual meanings on religion and aesthetics and how the immortality coruscates the divine splendor of "Tao" and "Beauty". The occult "Tao" and "Beauty" make religionary and aesthetic experience reflect each other. Especially the "change" and "wander", the special excise and aesthetic way of Taoism arrive at the realm of "immortality -Beauty". The "immortality -Beauty" could coruscate splendour extraordinary in religionary aesthetics by outspread "change" and "wander". The "immortality-Beauty" presents the beauty of "Tao-Beauty" more royally and effulgently by clarifying the images and actions.In the last part, I will prove that the way and realm made by the "immortality-Beauty" is actually the endeavor and goal of human being who...