Analysis Of The Aesthetics Of Harmony As A Theory Made By Shen Congwen

As a writer in China,Shen Congwen is symbolized as a mark to understand modern Chinese Literature. At the beginning of modern Chinese literature there was a series of questions about how to challenge culture transplantation, culture confrontation and culture transformation etc. People at that time they thought about literatures, one of them is focus on what the methods of thinking and tactics should be under the pluralistic cultural circumstance. Shen Congwen gives us an answer by his own way. Shen Congwen surmounts almost all the ideological debates, against the traditional and foreign culture with the experience and manners as a man with harmony thoughts. And it is just concludes and summarizes from the life experience and literary creation of him as the aesthetics of Harmony addressed.The aesthetics of Harmony made by Shen Congwen includes the texts, such as, story, prose and poem; it isn't so similar about the way and traits which manifestated by the aesthetics of Harmony due to the difference of literary forms.The aesthetics of Harmony was presented through the relationship between matters, human and matters ,and human being themselves, which created by Shen Congwen. Otherwise, he states his point of view quite directly in literary criticism.The spiritual factors about the aesthetics of Harmony embodies four aspects as follows. The first one of essential features about the aesthetics of Harmony is the pluralism. The subject matters is pluralistic one ,the types of literture in the literary creation which made by Shen Congwen as well. At same time, the guiding ideologies is the pluralistics, and the tactics for literary creation as well. The second one of the essence is the tolerance. It is not only the expression of the social attribute under Shen Congwen's the aesthetics of Harmony, but also the intrinsic impetus for his aesthetics of Harmony from its natural attributes become to its social attributes, and sublimating as a theory ultimately. The third one of the essential factors is the temperance. The temperance is both the code for the relationship between nature and man, and among human being themselves, and is also the guiding ideology for Shen congwen's literary creation. The last one is the mode of thoghts make all the things integrated,which is the unification of harmony. All the four traits makes up the intrinsic spiritual mechanism of the aesthetics of Harmony as a theory represented.It is a historic process about Shen Congwen's aesthetics of Harmony taking shapes.And it manifestes different traits in different life time of Shen Congwen, but there are something in it which is inherent and consistent. In short, the aesthetics of Harmony as a theory is an open system, which connects both to the Shen Congwen's thoughts tending to the liberalism and the intrinsic needs for it as a theory taking shapes. Besides,the literary creation made by Shen congwen is very closed to the cultural tradition and social facts.The aesthetics of harmony and magnificent practical meaning, is not only the great works he made which can enrich the aesthetic experience of human beings, but also keeps his thinkings out of the aesthetics of strength which is full of radical movements and strugglings among different kind of thinkings when people advocated aesthetics of fighting, revolution and strength, usually it sets up its values under the dual choice which is developed through the way of the linear evolution.On the contrary, Shen Congwen makes great efferts on the aesthetics of harmony, and find another way of the modern aesthetics pattern without deny the rationality of the mainstreams. This kind of way is not only keeps tradition goes on,but also guides a concord way of aesthetics for Chinese people ,even for all the people in this world. This is just the special meaning for Shen Congwen as a writer in the Chinese modern literary history should be, and this is also the universal values in the thoughts and works which Shen Congwen created.