The Lineal Representative Of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics

Jia Pingwa's prose creations, which fully exert his art personality and succeed to the cultural and aesthetic spirit of Chinese tradition , have been promoting the development and prosperity of the up-to-date prose by a kind of unique art style and aesthetic ideal. This writing is designed to analyze art characteristics of Jia Pingwa's prose profoundly from three conceptions ,that is, Yijing, Wenqi and the space-time consciousness, which come from traditional Chinese aesthetics and each have aesthetic meaning of them themselves. As one of the nucleus conceptions in traditional Chinese aesthetics, Yijing not only refers to the internal law of art creation but also reflects aesthetic depth psychology of Chinese people. While Jia Pingwa is creating the prose, he usually looks upon Yijing as a kind of conscious pursue of aesthetics. Jia Pingwa puts much emphasis upon the personal and moral culture. His Wenqi is so abundance that it emits a strong tinge of aesthetics when his outstanding talent and unique personality soak into his works. We may feel the changes of Jia Pingwa's emotion while appreciating his prose in a sense of space-time. In fact, the space-time consciousness of his prose is that of life.