The Sublation Of The Contradiction Between Secular Pursuit And Aesthetic Pursuit Of Chinese Literati

The Chinese literator has been respected by the common people in the Chinese society,they are the main inheritors of the Chinese nation’s brilliant culture.In the secular society,in order to meet the basic survival needs of people and fulfill their political aspirations,China literators pursuit of fame and fortune;but in the aesthetic world,China literators are quest for return to nature to make their inner virginal and spiritual free.However,The pursuit of worldly fame and fortune and the pursuit of natural aesthetics are contradictory,and the different choice of the problem have also caused the different attitudes towards enter officialdom or live in seclusion.A part of the Chinese literators wished neither forsook the convenience of fame and fortune nor gave up the spiritual enjoyment of natural beauty,so they tried to sublated the contradiction of the two.Under these circumstances,The Chinese literati garden was appeared as the times require.The Chinese literati garden can not only satisfied the pursuit of nature,but also made Chinese literators enjoyed the convenience brought by worldly fame and fortune while they were in touch with nature,so as to achieved the purpose of integrated secular and nature into one.On the principle "imitate the nature",the landscape architect reproduces the natural beauty in the garden,and endow nature with social and cultural connotation of the literati through the processing and artificial carving nature.At the time of the integration of nature and man,they made the natural beauty highly centralized and typical by the people’s active creation,so that the Chinese literatis’ contradiction of the pursuit of worldly fame and fortune and the pursuit of natural beauty could be achieved in the process of building the literati garden.This kind of contradiction sublation eventually presented through the beauty of garden,and make the literati garden into a comprehensive building of various beauty such as the harmonious beauty come from the theory that man is an integral part of nature,the pure beauty which make people returned to one’s original nature and the changed beauty because of rich diversity.Chinese literati gardens became a ideal residence because the sublation of contradiction of literati about secular pursuit and aesthetic pursuit,and provide an example which has a great reference value for contemporary society about how to make the man and nature live in harmony.