Research On The Qiu Chuji’s Ecological Aesthetic Wisdom

From the ecological aesthetics was created on,it highly fit with the excellent traditional Chinese culture and thought.In the excellent traditional Chinese culture,Taoism is the closest to the ecological aesthetics.Qiu Chuji,as the leader of Quanzhen sect and a key figure in the development of Chinese Taoism,his thought about reflecting and recognizing the relationship between man and nature,society and himself has an obvious feature of ecological aesthetic,and flashes the light of ecological aesthetic wisdom.The ecological aesthetic wisdom which is embodied in the excellent Chinese traditional culture has become important soil and theoretical source for developing ecological aesthetics.Based on the perspective of ecological aesthetics,combined with Qiu Chuji’s writings,records and research results,this paper explores the background and causes about the emergence of Qiu Chuji’s ecological aesthetic wisdom,analyzes the specific connotation and performance of his ecological aesthetic wisdom,and summarizes the practical impact and significance of his ecological aesthetic wisdom.According to those analyses,this paper is in order to expand the relevant vision of Qiu Chuji’s research and enrich its research content.And it also provides a new theory point for the development of ecological aesthetics in China and promotes communication between Chinese and Western ecological aesthetics.The first part explores the source of his ecological aesthetic wisdom by analyzing the social background of Song,Jin and Yuan dynasties,Qiu Chuji’s ideological roots and Qiu Chuji’s private life.The social background of the Song,Jin and Yuan Dynasties had a very important influence on the emergence of Qiu Chuji’s ecological aesthetic wisdom.Its ecological aesthetic wisdom resulted from the reflection on the social contradictions and the war between the three dynasties.The cultural atmosphere which encourages the integration of the three religions in the Jin Dynasty provided loose conditions and rich source of culture and thought for the generation and development of his ecological aesthetic wisdom.At the same time,the thought from Lao Zi,Zhuang Zi and Wang Chongyang’s new Taoism also provided the ideological source for the emergence of Qiu Chuji’s ecological aesthetic wisdom.The discussion about Qiu Chuji’s life provides a good entry point to explain the generation of Qiu Chuji’s ecological aesthetic wisdom.The characteristics of ecological aesthetic wisdom determine that it is essentially hidden in Qiu Chuji’s thought and practice.His thoughts were gradually improving through his practice in Panxi and westward missionary experience.The second part analyzes the concrete manifestation of Qiu Chuji’s ecological aesthetic wisdom.Qiu Chuji’s ecological aesthetic wisdom is mainly embodied in his "Tao Theory ",ecological view of nature,ecological view of society and ecological view of body.The thought of "Tao Theory" includes the unity of transcendence and immanence and the entire harmony of people oriented.The ecological view of nature includes the homeland consciousness of the harmony of heaven with human and the exploitation and excavation of natural beauty.Ecological view of society includes the peace idea and the organic unity of action and inaction;the ecological view of body mainly includes spiritual practice and the regimen.The third part discusses the practical significance of Qiu Chuji’s ecological aesthetic wisdom.The aesthetic paradigm of the integration of subjective and the objective and the equality of all things shown in his ecological aesthetic wisdom is helpful to dissolve anthropocentrism and construct an ecological aesthetic conception of entire harmony.His homeland consciousness of being close to nature and peaceful thoughts of stopping killing and helping the people have great significance for constructing a harmonious ecological civilization society.In addition,Qiu Chuji’s ecological body view holds spiritual practice and regimen of "self-denial and not being burdened by things",which reflects a kind of transcending material desire idea and a natural personality aesthetics.This provides a kind of wisdom for dispelling the alienation of human beings by material and disperses the confusion of modern people’s existence.