The Body Presentation On And Aesthetic Value In The Pilgrimage Towards The West

Body becomes a new continent in the west humanity and social science since 70s to 80s in 20 centuries. Many scholars active in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, study of religion, psychology, feminism, etc, compete to set foot in this area and have carried on a series of fruitful theory explorations. In fact, however, China's aesthetics and philosophy have never separated themselves from consideration for"human", not only displayed in the grand three dimensional relations between the heaven, the earth and the human, also in these concrete and trivial aspects such as human body, mind, spirit, bone, existing, disappearing. So China's aesthetics group paid close attention to body problems much earlier than the west, but what has puzzled aestheticians continuously is how to integrate ancient sources into modern system.The Pilgrimage towards the West is a novel epitomizing the collections of people's body imagination, thus no doubt that there's higher aesthetic significance in investigating for its body view. Seeing that ancients'body view was very complex, this paper will divide two parts to explore the works'body view only from"shape"and"mind"of the ideal structure"body——spirit——mind(also soul)". The first chapter, the body of The Pilgrimage towards the West, expounds body of having desire and body of physical shape. Body of having desire includes diet for body, passion for body, intending to observe the attitude to"desire for food and sex"in the Pilgrimage towards the West. The second chapter, the body Utopia, includes the way to body Utopia, body that could change at random and keep alive for ever, and geography backing for body Utopia, intending to discover its significance to contemporary body view. It's believed that in this consume society paying more attention to body problems, in the rapid changing time that body Utopia dream is increasingly intense, our reobservation for the body view in the Pilgrimage towards the West is an expansion for aesthetics research objects, and also a concrete practice for China's classical aesthetics to modern transformation.