Zhu Guangqian With Traditional Chinese Aesthetics

Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic thought is rich and complicated due to his extensive learning. Concerning the study of the influence of traditional culture and aesthetic ideology upon him, there has been a gradual process of exploration and analysis among the scholars. However, the study of Zhu Guangqian's traditional aesthetic thought so far has not substantially become a subject. This thesis is an attempt to display Zhu Guangqian's experience in aesthetic spirit and thought pattern of traditional aesthetic ideology with the study of his traditional aesthetic thought as the proposition, logical construction as the major expounding approach, and the life care of the traditional culture as the thinking background. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter expounds that life care of the traditional culture constitutes the solid foundation and psychological support for Zhu Guangqian's study of traditional aesthetic thought, and elaborates the unique discovery that there is a deep connection between Zhu Guangqian and the literary theory of the Tong Cheng School. The second chapter sets forth the experience of Zhu Guangqian's traditional aesthetics which takes interest as the theoretical pivot, empathy as the theoretical core, and artistic life as the destination. and deeply explores and analyzes the inside information of the traditional culture and the dilemma of the fusion of the Chinese and western cultures contained in Zhu Guangqian's empathy thought. The third chapter discusses Zhu Guangqian's identification to affective intention experience of the traditional aesthetics and experience approach of the aesthetic feeling. The fourth chapter states Zhu Guangqian's prospects of life significance and ponderation of imaginal thinking in his later years.