A Study On Aesthetics Of Life In Liang Shiqiu's Prose

“Aesthetics of life” is an important form and development trend of contemporary aesthetics of the world,While the time focusing on the real life also advocating the spirit of aesthetic throughout their daily life,through the comprehension of life that motivates the love of life,which is a kind of aesthetics that gives beauty back to life itself.The enthusiasm of western “Aesthetics of life” triggered the exploration and reflection of Chinese Aesthetics.In Chinese native culture,“life aesthetics” has always been a tradition,whether the secular aesthetic of “The path is not far from man”,or the wisdom thinking “the Doctrine of the Mean” which beyond the two opposite,or the self-discipline aesthetic style of “upholding morality and kindness”,although they are not exactly the same to modern western life aesthetics in theory,but they are all of showing the absolute concern of human beings to their living conditions and aesthetic appeal of returning to life.Liang Shiqiu was a man who accepted western education,while also deeply influenced by Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.It is life that he only wrote about in his prose,he inspired readers to find interesting life and aesthetic experiences in ordinary life by discovering the trifles of his daily life.He put his attitude in the implication of common life through his own aesthetic experience,which is a coincidence to the concept of "returning to life" in western life aesthetics.This thesis is based on Liang Shiqiu's prose,teasing and elucidating the author's life aesthetics by using methods of text analysis and the combination of aesthetics and Literature.The introduction briefly states the reason of choosing this subject,the significance of the study,the previous research result,the research methods and the research content.This article has four parts in total,the first chapter is based on life,throughout the beauty of food,the beauty of appearance and the beauty of human relations to expound the life aesthetic of Liang's prose.The second chapter is the major part of this paper,concretely analyzed the main characteristics of life aesthetics in Liang Shiqiu's prose.Including “elegance is beauty”?“moderation is beauty”?“ethics is beauty”.His noble and graceful taste of life and aesthetic shows the aesthetic implication of "elegance is beauty ";“moderation is beauty” reflected in its rational lifestyle and modest literary concept;the moral pursuit of upholding morality and kindness and aesthetic ideal of love others according to moral standards embodies his aesthetic implication of “ethics is beauty”.In chapter 3,the cause of life aesthetics will be analyzed from two main aspects: besides Chinese traditional Confucianism,Buddhism,and Taoism,"the art of life" and "the attitude of being a man" of professor Babbitt's newhumanism,was also as important to help the formation of Liang Shiqiu's aesthetics of life.The last chapter discussed the significance and value of Liang Shiqiu's life aesthetics and evaluated it from three aspects: literary meaning,? aesthetic significance and practical significance.In the end,The author makes a simple distinction between the aesthetic features of Liang Shiqiu's prose and other essays,and summarizes the aesthetic characteristics of Liang Shiqiu's prose.