On "dead" Aesthetic Ideology Concept

The Chinese aesthetics is based on the complementation of Confucianism and Mohism, which is also framing the theories of Mohism, Legalism, Buddhism and Zen Buddhism. With other branch theories, it has been formed a complete set theories of aesthetics with Chinese characteristics. "Human Community" is one of these theories. Similar to the concept "Society" under the western cultural context, "Human Community" is a kind of interpretation of "Society" under the Chinese cultural context. The biggest difference between them is that, "Human Community" refers to both "existence" and "infinity", while "Society" only has the former one, and this is also the biggest difference between Chinese and Western ideas. The aesthetics of "Human Community" not only reflects a lot of Chinese aesthetic characteristics, but also plays important roles in guiding the current social constructions. Meanwhile, it acts as a bridge for the cultural exchange between China and the outward world. It includes many aspects of Chinese people's ideas, such as their philosophies, world views and outlook, which is rooted from every single Chinese people's daily life. In nowadays, it is a great subject to find out valuable cultural resources for the connections between the past and the present, as well as the exchanges between east and west, and the aesthetic theory of "Human Community" may bring us lots of guidelines and revelations on the subject.