| China's policy of reform and opening up not only brings new vitality to its economic recovery, but also furthers its revolution in culture and people's mind. Thus the propagation of popular culture then provided people who were quite confused with space to experiment and play in. People of the new time are getting more addicted to the worldly happiness, personal benefit, present welfare and the pleasures of the sense. They attach more importance to their personal individualities; they pay ample attention to time and space; and at the same time, they get more confused about the pursuit of "freedom" as well. All these changes about contemporary Chinese people's mind, about Chinese people trying to focus their attention on themselves reflects the tremendous change in people's human nature. It means Chinese people want to repair and develop their sensibilities. It indicates Chinese people has begun to be aware of and be concerned about the nature of life. Meanwhile, the development of perception has also rapidly affected Chinese people's attitude and interest to life . This could be represented by people's attentions on secular matters; by their crazy seeking for the sense of pleasure; by their passion and following up with the fad that keeps changing; and also by human's awareness of protecting the environment. To sum up, all these changes of popular taste in the new age have fully displayed the new image of human nature. It infers that Chinese people are trying their best to have a full review, exploration and reform on themselves..However, modern people free from the role of political megaphone, suddenly became the slaves of the commodity society. The nature of perceptual experience has fundamentally varied since our daily life involved in the function of market due to the capital expansion. Nowadays, what the perception represents, is not about revolution and liberation, rather, is about the requirements and profits of social aggregations who occupy both economic and cultural capital. Hence, the Aestheticization of Everyday Life brings people into an odd world, people have achieved their desire of appetite, but not the aesthetic tastes. Meanwhile, the present generation shifts their aesthetic interest to the body too. People can't pull themselves out from the orectic circle but get into the fatigue owing to the overdraft of entertainment. What's more, the consumerism lifestyle and values are deepened into people's mind as well, which becomes another part of modern popular tastes. The ideology of consumerism makes people be represented only in terms of consumer oriented behavior. People are getting so used to the enjoyment and possession, thus, they hardly notice other things alongside. It weakens human's creativity and resistance ability, making people gradually become an lifeless creature.Anyway, the development of the present people's humanity is tightly linked with the present popular taste. The subtle change in the structure of human-beings will instantly be reflected by people's alternate demands and interests. And the variation of people's aesthetic opinions and behaviors can affect mankind's human nature as well. Humanity, being abstract and metaphysical, is unrealistic to be analysed in detail. However, it has infiltrated into people's communications, behaviors, into their values, and into their aesthetic tastes of life. Thus, by studying the public's aesthetic tastes, we can have a better knowledge of the contemporary Chinese people's realistic lives. We can analyse the situation that the development of humanity lies on and help to lead it towards the right way. And finally, we can establish a healthier atmosphere for all Chinese people. After concerning all above, this paper aims to call for a reform on the public popular taste. It aims to investigate whether we could construct a new satisfying "aesthetic pursuit " to inversely affect the "structure of Chinese people's humanity" with the help of educators' hardworking, intellectuals' wisdom, the concern of the whole society, and the beneficial policies made by the government? Only when the nationalities begin to make corresponding adjustment to their former way of "interests"; when cultural engineers try to produce new literature works which are real and moved, with human traits and demonstrating people's new pursuits of the era, and setting up good examples in the society; when the cultural atmosphere asks for reform and improvement, can the aesthetic interest become more vigorous and more widely accepted, and can the humanity be redistributed so that individuals are capable to redirect themselves and get ready to provide inexhaustible resources for their development.
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