Timing And Aesthetic

Xiaxiaozheng is one of the most ancient Chinese texts which is abundantin meanings and has deep influence upon Chinese culture. From Xiaxiaozheng, We cannot only find historical materials on astronomy, calendar, phenology and agriculturebut also dig up the ancientideas on time-sequencefrom the view of aesthetic cultureand open out the subtile relation between time-sequence and aesthetics. The articleholds that Xiaxiaozheng definitely embodies the ancient ideas on time-sequencewhich centre on adoring midpoint, emphasizing on change, requiring slowness andurgency arranged in order, reasoning the end from the beginning, showing greatconcern for sense and thoroughness and communicating nature time and human time.What's more, Xiaxiaozheng shows that this kind of idea pattern permeated throughancient social living from the royal time of the upper class to the everyday timeof the common people. The gene of time-sequence soak into the relationship betweennature and human, the composing of ancient ethic and civilization and the originof literature and art. The matter of fact not only influenced the Confucian cultureof rites and ritual music but also favored the establishment of life style of Chinesepeople. The article studies the effect of Xiaxiaozheng upon the origin of beautyappreciation of ancient Chinafrom the routes of nature symbol aesthetics, societyaesthetics and literature and art aesthetics, and then, analyses the change courseof the ideas of time-sequence in Chinese classical aesthetical cultural history,finally, discusses the change in modern times.