Poem And Popularity Tensions

Li Zhi is the thinker who lived in the latter Ming dynasty society reforming time, had left behind the rich thought cultural heritage to the posterity by one kind posture which was individualistic. Predecessor had all yielded the big result to the thought of Li Zhi, regardless of some discipline aspect or the synthetic study. But former studies mostly deduced the esthetic thought of Li Zhi by the text concrete explanation, in which more common was to deduce its connotation from theory of preserving childlike innocence. The article macroscopically carries on the whole to the esthetic thought of Li Zhi, and thinks the tensility between poem and the secularity is the key to understand the esthetics thought of Li Zhi thoroughly.As the individuality thinker in the Chinese thinking history, the esthetic thought of Li Zhi displays one kind of unique inherent contradictions, the reason that forms the tensility is the concentrated reflection of China esthetic culture consciousness vicissitude in the latter Ming dynasty time. Its concrete content is that the tradition of explaining the poem with Taoist transforms to the secularity of the residential populace affirming the passion. Li Zhi, who was in this process, by his unique mind and temperament, developed the modern significance esthetic idea of China. Therefore, this article takes the tensility as the basic point to carry on the analysis to the esthetic thought of Li Zhi, further understands his esthetics thought from the macroscopic whole, and excavates the modernity characteristics among esthetic thought of Li Zhi.The full text divides three parts:The first part, analyzes the background which the tensility of esthetic thought of Li Zhi forms. Li Zhi lived in the Ming Dynasty's mid and late part. In this society the commercial fast developed, the social convention transformed along with it and the philosophy of Wang Yang-ming was popular, in which the left Wang's theory had opened the strobe of ideological liberation. The change of social economy and the cultural idea constitutes the external condition which the tensility of esthetic thought of Li Zhi forms. And the back and forth of going for Officialdom and seeking for Taoist enable the formation of this tensility to have the inevitability.The second part, primarily analyzes the concrete manifestation of the tensility between poem and the secularity. On the one hand, its esthetic poem displayed pursue of"dao"which surmounted the life and death. Suffered influence from the traditional Taoist, the idea of"seek dao"of Li Zhi bore with poem implication of the traditional China culture transcendence. On the other hand, the economy development and the appearance of social new ideological trend of the time had made him have to confirm the passion secularization. This kind of the publicizing of passion converges that obtaining dao is the product which human's passion to obtain Satisfaction. Namely the common people daily expense is the"dao", also eating meal and putting on the clothes are human's ethics. Through the concrete manifestation of its poem and the secularity, the author thinks the theory of preserving childlike innocence is the concentrated expression of the tensility between poem and the secularity, and displays raising high to nature pure in the esthetic characteristic.The third part, tries to appraise the esthetic thought of Li Zhi. Tang Xian-zu and Gongan's Yuans who have close relation with Li Zhi, were affected by the secularization tendency among the Li Zhi esthetic in the literary arts esthetic and in the creation. They displayed and further strengthened the esthetic idea of secular passion, and had made it widely disseminate in the society through creating the secular literary arts. Finally analyzes the characteristics of esthetic thoughts of Li Zhi which direct modern, namely the modernity esthetic characteristics of concentrating the popularity of common people, confirming the secularization of passion and publicizing the freedom of individuality.The tensility of esthetic thought of Li Zhi is produced by the tradition and the reality interweaving mutually. It is the product which the new ideology and the old ideology play chess mutually, along with new change of the development of social economy in the latter Ming dynasty time. The tradition and the reality mutual gambling is a prominent characteristic of modernity cultural. Thus, in this significance, the esthetic thought of Li Zhi aims the modern age.