The Study On Aesthetic Characteristics Of The Han Rhapsody

The Han Rhapsody，with the prose style in Han Dynasty is thearchetype of Han literature. It is of poetic prose style with great length. We candescribe it like this",including all things and people all over the universe".It reflectsa scene of Han Empire and the emperors’ dignity and their wild dreams about all thegods. The Han Dynasty Confucian classic is the main cultural thought in HanDynasty. It is a kind of learning aiming at the maintenance of imperial regime andunity of people’s thought. With Heaven-man Sensing Theory as its core, it has criticand beauty-praising spirit. On one hand, it advocated the virtue of economy,moderation and pragmatism; on the other hand, it combated extravagance,immoderation and fiction. The Han Rhapsody is the symbol of the study of Handynasty Confucian classic; it represented an epic of magnificence. Han Empire hasa grand narrative structure, and the Han Emperors has the supremacy of theocracy.The Han Rhapsody is also the protestant of the study of Confucian classic, so itrepresented peculiar aesthetics. Han Empire has the fantasy and fantastic beautybeyond the universe, among which there are various gods, numerous monsters andunusual things. The Han Rhapsody is made up skillfully and imaginative,represented strong romanticism of literature. Therefore, as the subject of aesthetics,the readers are involved in and fascinated by the prose. They had a comprehensivesense of beauty, rare and extraordinary, strange and magnificent, fantastic andamazing, ugly and rigid. So the readers are involved in the whole Imperial life ofHan as the individual. The Han Rhapsody represents the beauty of the life of ageneration of literature. It was the key to the literature characterized by a grandnarrative structure mingled with strong romantic color in the first unified, strongfeudal empire of China, also with a very long history. Developed from the powerful momentum of the warring states and Chu Yuan’s romantic temperament, The HanRhapsody created the magnificent life of the literature in the later unified and strongperiod of history.