Enlightenment Of Taoism To The Leisure In Modern Society

The thought of leisure goes back to ancient times. As far back as ancient Greece times in the west and the pre-Qin Dynasty in China, the thought of leisure and leisure culture have come into being, and exerted profound influence on following development. Leisure has always played an important role during course of human history, studied by lots of scholars especially from the west.There's more lisure time than before with economic bloom, gradually increased abundant material wealth and resident disposable income, leisure time is being part of daily life. However, China is vast in land and large in population., gap is deep between the need of natural resources per-capita and actual needs; The dual structure of cities and countryside is prominent, the disparity between the rich and the poor is large. Meanwhile, there are phenomenons out of tune: immature ideas on recreation leads to a series of dissimilation, which deserve theoretical reflection. Correct leisure concept is the leading path to sustained leisure industry and brand-new leisure ways.The leisure is one kind of pursuit at a higher level, which's more about harmony, mutual development between human and the nature. It makes sustained development come true and elevate one's world view, sense of worth and philosophy, whose thoughts comply with those advocated by Taoism. Compared with other traditional schools, Taoism is living till today, involving more everlasting truth and old wisdom leading to modernization and the future, partly for basic questions on leisure cared about Taoists are transcending times and country borders, faced by human. Taoists discuss those questions with profound oriental wisdom, which deserves further research.This article combines analysis on leisure development scene in china and defects during the process, systematically explains view, aims, features on leisure in Taoism, studies contemporary view on leisure from viewpoints of philosophy, ethics and ethnology to provide more theoretical evidence for its sound development.