On Life Consciousness In Li Zhi's Aesthetic Thoughts

Lizhi is the core character of romanticism which sprang up in the middle periodof Ming dynasty.His aesthetics centralized embodied characteristic of era .Hisaesthetics theory based on the human nature,which started from people's perceptuallife,proposed emotions outstanding position in aesthetic taste.Lizhi jumped from thetraditional Chinese person's being,and began producing his own independentsound.His aesthetic theory's essential tendency was the brand of his life's experience.This thesis adopt method,Concrete conditions require concrete analysis .It focuson life's consicious of Lizhi's aesthetics,to discuss the connotation of that ,and pointout the controversary in his aesthetics.Then analysis the reasons of this phenomenon.One .Introduction.A general evaluation of current study on Mr Li's aesthetictheory and the subject of this thesis .I want to show it is important to study the life'sconsicious in Lizhi's aesthetics. There have already been a lot of works are base on"Mr Li's childlike views"to study his aesthetics and arts. Those are short of depth inMr Li's aesthetic theory.So this thesis focus on the life's consciousness,conbined hisaesthetics and his criticism text.So it make up for blank space in this field.Two. Text.This text is devided into three parts.Part one.The life conscious in lizhi's aesthetics.which I discuss in four sides.Firstly,the attention of emotions had further enhanced the being of life.Lizhiregarded art and literature as express and reveal of emotions.lizhi regarded emotionsas existing conditions of society final principle and all creative motivity. Lizhi payedattention to a revealation of one's true feeling,againsted ethics alienation to humannature,to attach the return of it.Emotions Lizhi advocated conflict as beauty in arts.which were incisive experience of life .broken the traditional literary opinion thoseadvocated gentle and kindly.Secondly.Study from aesthetic idea.Opening literature idea and acknowledgingin ancient Chinese popular literature idea embodied Lizhi's identification to commonindividual life being.Lizhi emphasized that the words that common person used wereprovided rich creative source.He set out from the nature of human,discovered thefeeling's desire of lower-person's.The arts which displayed the truly features ofcommon life,superseded those arts that filled with thoughts of feudal customs.Thirdly. Study from aesthetics value. Lizhi's aesthetics value passed judgent onlife's value.Which was human dignity of educated person.His persue was commonbetween the free aesthetics and life,he thought the important thing was conductedhimself before he wrote article. One should take the habit of self-reliance andself-confident.Loyalty and justice were regarded as one criterion of the arts thought.Finally,Lizhi's aesthetics mostly embodied life conscious was lied in his thinkingabout life being .In his reading and creation Lizhi achieved overstep of time .Hisaesthetics embodied the harmonious incommunion between arts and life.Part two. Lizhi's aesthetics include limitations which can't overcome byhimself.I devide four parts to analysis this problem.Firstly,Lizhi's aesthetics contained the controvsary between the adiring ofemotions and the social sexuality to spread unchecked. positiving of sexuality andspreading self-conscious all over the place broke the traditional aesthetic concept thatmiddling is aesthetics, established the indepent position of creative subject.Secondly,on one side lizhi manifested powerful affection ,on the other side heconsciously ran away from social conventions life. The attention of common wordsmade Lizhi show great enthusiasm,but in order to run away the entangleman ofcustom affairs,he lived in a distant land,studied Chan to know the meaning ofdoctrine.Thirdly,Lizhi's aesthetics reacted the contradictory between peaceful heart andwild behaviour.Because Lizhi regarded reading as a happy thing of life,so the processthat Lizhi look for doctrine was the process of writing and teaching.In this processLizhi got the rest of heart for a moment.Yet before the complicated affairs of theworld ,Lizhi can't totally engaged in happiness from beginning to the end .Finally Lizhi's aesthetics contain the controversary between the social idea andrealistic ethics.The emotion that expressed and revealed was the react of relationshipbetween person.On the one side Lizhi looked for the person that he could get on wellwith,on the other side he was lost in all kinds of contradict,and couldn't get himselfout that.Part three. The reason that Lizhi's aesthetics include the life conscious .First of all ,the rapidly changes of the social surrounding was the direct reasonfor him to pay more attention to life conscious .Secondly,lifetime of frustrationmade lizhi taste the happiness and painness from his own experience ,this is theemotion of lizhi's life aesthetics theory.The rapidly rise and development of publicculture broke the traditional aesthetic taste which said establishing cultivate toprofound human relations .Public culture pursued "qu ,miao,su,yan",which created thegood culture atmosphere about positiving common culture and approving publicculture.Finally,the knowage about life's being is inherented in individual life.As thecollective unconscious of human and nation,life conscious constantly remind theponder of the being which about oneself.Third:End.explicate the modern meaning.The changes of times and surroundings can't change the thinking about life andaesthetics.At the rapid development of market economy today,how to solve thecontradictory ,perplexed and crisis?At the popular of the public culture era,how toconstruct an ideal aesthetics personality?Lizhi's aesthetics theory about ponder of lifewill be given us depth inspire.Just like lizhi regarded reading as lifetime job ,maybeliterature is the land to rest one's heart.