Influence Of Buddhism On Some Of The Traditional Chinese Aesthetics

Chinese traditional aesthetics is the important component part ofChinese traditional culture. It has a long history, also rich and varied formsand reflected every respect of Chinese people's hearts . Its production anddevelopment take root in ancient cultural tradition soil of Chinese people.Thus they possess distinct nation characteristics. It has included very richaesthetic factors in the classical books "Books of Changes "in early periodof our country. Up until the Warring States period, the Confucian schooltaken Confucius and Mencius as representatives and Taoist school takenLao Zi and Zhuang Zi as representatives, they have expounded traditionalaesthetics of our country from different respects. At the turning turning of Han Dynasty, expect for two schools ofaesthetic thought of Confucian and Taoist, arisen of foreign Buddhism hasexerted quite profound effort on ancient aesthetics of our country. It hasimported new blood into traditional aesthetics of our country, expandednew field and makes people aesthetic consciousness further deepen intoinner law of literature and art, depending upon very detailed methods ofthinking, differentiating and refined and deep research on recognizingactivity.