Study On The Kang You-wei's Aesthetics Thoughts

The aesthetics thoughts of Kang You-wei belongs to the tradition aesthetics category of China. He thought "beautiful" comes from "Yuan"."Yuan" not only is the world essence,also the world origin.As one of the part of "Yuan",human also evolved from it.Owing to the exits of "heart", however,"Yuan" can fall in the human,so human can able to beyond the world,enjoying the beauty of the world evolved "Yuan" and "Yuan" itself.Influenced by the transcendent inspirit of the "Yuan" aesthetic essentialism,Kang You-wei describes a "Datong" social-politics dream by the aesthetic manner,and takes it as the ultimate objective.He struggles in scholarly research,for the politics,the recreational enterprise in his whole life.In a sense,Kang You-wei ideology itself is the encompassment "Datong" launches ideally."Datong" ideal is the most important creation in the life of Kang You-wei,but how to realize the "Datnng" ideally.It become the essence difficult position actually of Kang You-wei,and also is the biggest barrier in the posterity understands process.Owing to the realistic conditions,Kang You-wei thought if wanted to realize "Datong" ideally,the first things should do exactly the opposite, preserving race,protecting Confucianism,reforming,and calling for the constitutional monarchy, but not broken "the family",the crowned head","the country","the private ownership" and so on.In the concrete esthetics position,Kang You-wei"took restores the old as the innovation", proposed the system calligraphy reform system.In the drawing aspects,he also objected the tidal current,opposed the painting of a scholar,and advocated the imperial art academy painting, initiating realism.In the literature aspects,he highly praised Huang Zun-xian,approved "the poem revolution".In literary creation aspects,he advocated the poem should introduce the "new things" of Europe and Asia.In a word,he thought that knowledge should subvert the traditional classical system,the style should oppose elegancy,initiated sublimely,and the method should "take restore the old as the innovation".He hopes to change the people personality through aesthetic,and thus serve reform politics.Meantime,it is one kind of the asthetie utilizable.Therefore,the thought of Kang You-wei is the transcendence and utilizable developing simultaneously.Actually,the relation between the beauty of "Yuan" and the beauty of the world has not been talked clearly in his thought of the "Yuan" aesthetic essentialism.Kang You-wei solved it by mysticism.Therefore,aesthetics is very difficult to obtain the independent status in Kang You-wei thoughts,and it is conservative.Beauty is mysterious and cannot been explain clearly,so he thought we only obeys the sage's desire,until obtain the accurate guarantee,but the question only in appears can be solved under the utilitarianism principle instruction.So Kang You-wei's aesthetics always is practical,which based on his individual feeling experience in art creation and appreciation aspects or as a part of aesthetics in social politics ponder under the practice needs.Therefore,Kang You-wei's aesthetics thoughts have not the modern esthetics characteristic.But his put forward religion view and the thought of aesthetic enlighten that get so many scholar's attention at that time.Wang Guo-wei,Liang Qi-chao,Cai Yuan-pei,Lu Xun further explores under his inspiration,introducing the Western esthetics system,proposing some advocate.Finally,Chinese modern esthetics was beginning.