A True Confucian, Success Or Defeat, Self-satisfaction, Anywhere Anytime

Huang Zong-xi has lofty ideal of pure confucianist and decisive pursuit of sage. Huang Zong-xi has a rough life, and has vast worldly experience. In the special historical background, he discharges all the responsibilities of a Confucian conscientiously, and has achieved remarkable success in many academic domain which focuses attention on the common people.His moral practice which as a steadfastly confucian all of his life proceeds to freedom in exceeding shape, thus reach to the level of true confucian.This paper concentrates on the complete picture of aesthetic significance in Huang Zong-xi'thought in the direction of the early exploration of confucian aesthetics in Song and Ming Dynasty. The paper is mainly divided into four chapters.The first chapter is beginning with Huang Zong-xi's special life experience "Politician-Paladin-Confucian",unitary analyses the aesthetic characteristics of his existing practice. Whether the new solution to the "liangzhi" noumenon or the critics to Buddhism, they all have been fully proved that Huang Zong-xi's life long moral practice is approaching and transforming to the area of aesthetics step by step. While Huang Zong-xi is insisting on the true confucian ideals and strenuously pursuing the three forms of perpetuation, he is also enduring anxious, restless and hidden bitterness which is got from the intense impact between the cruel reality and the great ideal.The second chapter centers on Huang Zong-xi's aesthetic factor in his philosophic theory to start the dissertate. The proposition of"Full world all mind"emphasizes the flexible characteristics of "mind" which is noumenon as human's moral aspiration and the practice to be sage.This offers foundations on the process which is from realizing the ideal of true confucian to the level of aesthetic freedom.The proposition of "Full world all Qi",has highlighted the possibility of the moral restraint and aesthetic surmounting which moves from contradiction identity on the basis of the unity of the world, and appears the extremely explicit universalism. Aesthetics and moral pursuing blending and gaming in Huang Zong-xi's theory difficultly, and finally moved towards the unification.The third chapter concentrates on Huang Zong-xi's poetics theory. In Huang Zong-xi's opinion, "nature", "disposition", "reason" are not the statements which repeat others ideas or the reproduction of popularization, but the more true, vast, and profound understanding and explanation under the background of special period. Though Huang Zong-xi exalts the sublimeness and the boldness of article, he does not repel the literary style which is plaintive and soft. That the grief, heroism, anxious, and self-satisfaction interweave mutually in his works has produced the unique aesthetic style.