A Study Of "You" As An Aesthetic Activity Taking The Analects Of Confucius And Zhuangzi As Examples

"You" is an activity with unique significance in Chinese traditional aesthetics and arts.In the contemporary research on the aesthetic significance of "You" in traditional aesthetics,The theory of "attitude" and "realm" is based on the theory of "aesthetic attitude without utility" constitutes the most important starting point and fulcrum of the mainstream discussion.However,due to the neglect of the properties of "You",he adopted a static and pure spiritual research approach,resulting in many problems of his own.Therefore,starting from the activity attribute of "You",re-examine its activity structure,and then interpret the significance and role of "You" in aesthetics from a dynamic dimension,which will become a new entry point for the study of aesthetic significance of "You".From the perspective of characters,"You",as an ancient character,is found in oracle bone inscriptions.On the character pattern,About the meaning of bone inscription " "(斿)," "((方人))is a flag of movement or stillness,but " "(子)in fact,it refers to the leadership of the rulers or clans at that time.Combined with the role of the ancient flag in communicating with the gods and ancestors and the nature of witchcraft props or sacrificial vessels,the original meaning of "You" is from the interpretation of "dance with You" and "behave with You",which is an communication between the human beings and the Gods.It contains four semantic features of "You","uncertainty","process" and "pleasure",and thus forms the activity structure of "You"with "process" as the core and self as the purpose,as well as its special space-time dimension and generation attribute.After the Zhou Dynasty,the sacredness and solemnity of "You" activity traffic God has gradually been replaced by an entertainment attribute,making it a kind of travel or entertainment activity for the purpose of pleasure for the aristocracy.Confucius’ understanding and practice of "You" recorded in the Analects of Confucius reinterprets and develops the significance of "You".Through the opposition and prudence of "Yi You" and "Yuan You",the Analects of Confucius reflects and criticizes the vulgar activities of "You" at that time,and thus clarifies the basic attribute of "You" as a kind of self-cultivation and Taoism activity with internal pleasure.His affirmation of "from travel" and "Yon in the art" essentially inherits the unique activity structure of the original "You",and constructs the "You" activity mode with the connotation of "You"blending with things and reaching to "Tao".Compared with the Analects of Confucius,Zhuangzi is undoubtedly the most important work about you in terms of quantity and quality.From the perspective of contemporary research on "You" in Zhuangzi,the mainstream view is to regard "You"as a realm of spiritual freedom.However,this kind of elaboration pays attention to the freedom attribute of "You" in Zhuangzi,but ignores the actual activity attribute of "you".As a kind of activity,"You" in Zhuangzi is a kind of activity that integrates the whole body and mind with "Tao".Its concrete development is in the living practice of people leaving the state of "being in the world" and "treating things with emptiness" and"combining heaven with heaven",which constitutes a kind of free practice mode of"doing things in accordance with Tao" and "doing things freely".From the situation of later generations,the original intention of "You" constructs the basic meaning range of "You" as a character and the basic characteristics of "You"as an activity.The interaction between "Tao" and "Wu" created by the Analects and Zhuangzi,laying the core significance and value of "You" in Chinese traditional culture.From the former point of view,the "You" from Confucius’ s "channel of combining with Wu "is not only an ethical activity pointing to "good",but also a unique way of aesthetic activity;As for the latter,the "You" of "combining Tao as the Wu "in Zhuangzi is a free existence state and practice mode of human beings,which is also a kind of artistic creation mode which takes the operation of "Tao" as the core,and adapts to the natural nature of all things as the method and develops in the practice of human life.From the perspective of Chinese classical aesthetics,the two basic activities of "the combination of things" and "combining Tao as the Wu" are carried out.As a unique aesthetic experience and artistic creation activity paradigm,they are always connected and implicated in the traditional aesthetic and artistic activities.In this sense,the activity of "You" is also the basic form of Chinese traditional aesthetic activity centered on "Tao" and "Wu".