The Concept Of "Taste" In Chinese Classical Literary Theory Category

"Taste" as the Chinese traditional aesthetic categories in the field of Chinese classical literary theory with appreciation, criticism and experience multiple aesthetic connotation, such as ancient Chinese "taste" category contains unique way of thinking and aesthetic ideal is worth us to explore and research, especially the "taste" of Physical senses to the aesthetic category of the root cause of the evolution of the research has certain theoretical value and aesthetic meaning, though in all age have sprung up a wave after wave of Literary theory researchers, aesthetes, focus on the study of "the taste" the connotation characteristics, but after all, due to the limitations of "taste" for people make connotation meaning is still not fully understand thoroughly, on the one hand, this paper to add the predecessors’ research on "taste" category still exist deficiencies and gaps, especially to the diet of "taste" gradually evolved into an aesthetic category reasons put forward its own humble opinion, also tried to "taste" of aesthetic experience of aesthetic connotation and characteristics for further comprehensive study.This article first through the "flavor" of the nominal and verbal concept that two clues as a starting point for the full text has carried on the overall layout. Comb the first part mainly analyzes the "taste" before becoming independent aesthetic significance in the history of the usage of several kinds of typical significance, From the theory of “taste “of food, to “taste” of words, to “taste” of politics to The article and to the poetry, etc. Purpose is to through to the "taste" used in the field of human life and to observe the evolution of connotation of the “taste”. Through the several times of change we could clearly to see that “taste” from the original meaning of the original full extension development step by step to the whole process of the metaphysical significance of sublimation, and then try to find it’s become a aesthetic category. From the first part we can see that in the first two stages, the original meaning of the "taste" is not out of it, just as a kind of metaphor used in the field of politics, philosophy, music, etc. But at Lao tzu ”feeling tasteless” on the people seem ambiguously can feel "taste" ethereal not capture. Finally in Liu xie and Zhong rong in literature and art as a breakthrough point completely sublimated into an aesthetic term with many meanings. "Taste" in the history of the development for several kinds of usage to make it from the simple meaning of aesthetic category with abundant meaning has played a very important role. In the next section of the article is mainly to have a purely aesthetic significance of "taste", namely as "flavor" of aesthetic ideal and aesthetic experience of the "taste" and the connotation characteristics and concepts of different levels of analysis summary. On the one hand, we carefully analysis as the aesthetic ideal of "taste" in the process of development to enrich the concept of some typical significance, such as: such as flavor, taste the taste of, to taste, on the other hand, as the connotation of aesthetic experience "taste" and people are in the works of "taste" of internal psychological processes are carried on the detailed analysis in this paper. The last part of the article when we back to search for the cause of the "taste" category, one of the oldest and most primitive way of thinking in our field of vision, so we stand in the perspective of metaphor study analyzed the "taste" from the "flavor" of the diet to the nature of the "taste" of aesthetic reasons. "Taste" and beauty for people’s inherent similarity metaphor thinking provides a perfect object materials; Prevalence of wei-jin period "discrimination meaning" as "taste" to the metaphysical path provides the possibility.Full text from the category of "taste" the two aspects of aesthetic ideal and aesthetic experience of development of the "taste" as the starting point, the cause of the "taste" of aesthetic and the internal analysis of the concept of "taste" category. The purpose is from the domain and the way used by people for the clues to observe taste sense of the "taste" evolution, which can be hope to found that adding inner factors of the "taste" of aesthetic. on the other hand,we supplement to studied the content of“taste”as the aesthetic experience. Hope this view be able to provide some new train of thought for other researchers.