Ouyang Xiu's Aesthetic Personality Research

Ouyang Xiu's rational character of integrity and loyalty had never been changed in his ups and downs political life.He frequently reveled in enjoying the beautiful landscape and absorbing in poem,liquor,music and chess.That appeared an aspect of his particular personality pursuing poetic nature with restraint.He had achieved a perfect penetration without obstruction that unifying different personalities in both public and private spaces with his multiple roles playing.Therefore,its groundbreaking achievements which established the pursuit of moralizing aesthetic personality of scholars in the Song Dynasty have a profound influence on later generations.Chinese classical art and aesthetics generally contained a personalistic orientation.Different from the Taoist naturally aesthetic view had been valued and showed a free,exceeding personality characteristic in Wei-Jin period,Confucian ethically aesthetic view had been valued and gradually formed an aesthetic character which attached importance to human relations morality and spirit in the Song Dynasty.In the process for establishing the construction of certain ideal aesthetic personality in the Song Dynasty,Ouyang Xiu was an vitally connecting link between the preceding and the following,for the typical construction of his aesthetic personality were bond up with the social and culture environment he lived in the early Song Dynasty and were established gradually in a dynamic process.His political integrity to advised frankly and morality advocacy enhanced the subject consciousness of scholars.His frank and calm attitude towards different obstacles in life and the poetic pursuit of life interest established an typically ideal personality for posterity.Ouyang Xiu was the first person who promoted personalistic self-consciousness in public power space.He was widely known as his personality of hate rascality and frankly talking and tended to combine the promotion of personality cultivation with the way of the country governance,and to regarded the establishment and improvement of admonishment against mistakes system of the Song Dynasty as a vital way for scholars to achieve teaching monarch.Ouyang Xiu,as a moral article master,attached great importance to reconstruct the Confucian moral personality and advocated the orthodoxy and the concept of propriety.He adhered to the Taoist tradition,and provided with a new model for the Confucian researches by way of valuing emotion.His concept of writing and Tao which argued that articles should have emotion and truth led directly to the improvement of the ancient prose movement and amended unhealthy tendencies in the Song Dynasty.Ouyang Xiu completed a mount of implicit and graceful poems and shows a sort of mild and restrained personality features.He tried to reconstruct the musical culture of the Confucian by advocating enjoying the happiness among the nature world.He came up with the concept of serve physically and seclude psychologically and earnestly practiced what he advocated,found detachment from real life and thus achieved peace in the inner world.Also,he put forward the view that simple words had far-reaching significance and advocated the scope of meaning,especially in the art criticism of articles,paintings,books,and music.This tendency revealed the simple but meaningful aesthetic taste of people of that era and consistency among Ouyang Xiu's personality aesthetics and artistic aesthetics.Ouyang Xiu's aesthetic personality was an inexorable outcome as Chinese traditional culture had been ever-evolving till the Song Dynasty.As a result,there had been emerging a spirit to search the inner world and the neo-Confucianism which attached importance to heart feel,moral and ethical became flourish,and thus led to the development of the moral and restraining trend of aesthetics thought.