Personality Ideal Of Mr. Zong Baihua's Esthetics

In the growing process of Chinese esthetics theory, Mr. Zong Baihua's esthetics contribution has been found very important for the future of Chinese esthetics. However, in terms of the profound significance of Mr. Zong Baihua's esthetics and its influence toward Chinese esthetics development, there is still a lot of work to do in the study of Mr. Zong's esthetics theory. The ultimate focus of Mr. Zong's esthetics is concerning with life. Personality Ideal is just the core of his thinking on life. Hence, it is a better cut-in to explore Mr. Zong's esthetics by discussing the Personality Ideal of Mr. Zong's esthetics. Personality Ideal which illustrated by Mr. Zong Baihua embodied the Personality Ideal tensility of traditional Chinese culture, which at the same time created new characters in order to fulfilled the traditional culture.Based on introducing the development procedure and its foundation of Mr. Zong's Personality Ideal, this paper made an analysis on the "unpredicable" and "substantial" of his esthetics which showing the beauty of harmonious and rhythm and discussed Mr. Zong Baihua's practice on his Personality Ideal.The Personality Ideal of Mr. Zong's esthetics actually is the outcome of Chinese philosophy development and also it has deeply root of western philosophy background. Mr. Zong's discussion on Personality Ideal has close relation with his philosophy thought. The Personality Ideal was fully enriched by the background of the Life philosophy.The development process of Personality Ideal could be divided into three stages, which are stage of Draft, stage of Performance and stage of Mature. The establishment of Personality Ideal almost occupied Mr. Zong's whole life.The Personality Ideal of Mr. Zong's esthetics reflects the "unpredictable" and "substantial" under the beauty of harmonious and rhythm. The aesthetic meaning of "unpredicable" refers to accept the world and human life with a peaceful heart and an attitude of "quietly appreciate", thus one can treat nature, art, human life and the universe with an aesthetic spirit. At the same time, just because such transcendency one can create a kind of metaphysic beauty. The aesthetic meaning of "substantial" refers to the beauty of reality. The Personality Ideal of Mr. Zong's esthetics is founded upon "true feelings" which spread personal characters and be passionately devoted. Because of the "true feeling" ancient anchoret like Tao Yuanming could lead a transcendent life in wild nature. What's more, because of the devoted passion, the nature of "unpredictable" could enrich Personality Ideal. The beauty of "substantial" is dynamic, which is more valuable than life so that the ancient anchorite's Personality could uplift the "true feeling" to the "devoted passion", and express "the undulation happened when human being's deep soul meet his surrounding world". This undulation is original wave deeply rooted in life which beyond word. The duality conflict between "unpredictable" and "substantial" could be balanced and showing its beauty of tensility and rhythm only when aesthetic intervention came in.Mr. Zong Baihua expressed a complete Personality Ideal through his "aesthetic promenade" and practice this ideal by using his whole life. The conflict between "unpredictable" and "substantial" in his Personality Ideal of esthetics embodied not only himself but also the mental existent quandary of Chinese intelligentsia. Mr. Zong's whole life is the best example not only showing his Personality Ideal but also showing the contravention between his theory and works as well as his study on artistic conception. The unique feature of Mr. Zong's Personality Ideal is that he dissolved the contravention of the Personality Ideal into aesthetic concern; he also dissolved his enthusiasm in pursuing niceties and his soreness toward darkness and autarchy into his "aesthetic promenade".Based on grand thinking scope, profound philosophy reasoning and particular aesthetic views, the Personality Ideal of Mr. Zong Baihua's esthetics enjoy both fresh new elements and endless pursue, which is outstanding in the turning point of Chinese modern esthetics development.