The Research Of The Late Ming Dynasty Literati Aesthetic Fashion And Reminiscences In Dreams Of Tao An Of Zhang Dai

Dai The book Reminiscences in Dreams of Tao An ,written by Ming Dynasty writer and thinker of Zhang Dai, was the highest literary achievement of the Ming Dynasty .The book vividly described the customs and habits and social life of the late Ming dynasty, which included profound accumulation of folk culture and a large number of cultural information. There is no doubt that it is a great supplement and enrich in Chinese classical aesthetic theory for showing many insights of artistic creation and aesthetic appreciation . The late Ming Dynasty literati paid attention to seeking beauty and music , as represent of Zhang Dai , often with an artistic eye to examine their lives and using artistic invention to beauty life.Their living moved towards the art through the design. Had intense and wide range of interest in food, clothing, travel tours and custom marketplace was the important part of the knowledge structure .Experienced a unprecedented new landscape of showing aesthetic fashion in the field of culture, philosophy and aesthetic ideology , no matter from the cultural history or art history. So setting up a cultural background has a a significant theoretical value for us to research the late Ming Dynasty literati aesthetic fashion.This paper tries to analysis and study the relevant information of Reminiscences in Dreams of Tao An , digging aesthetic fashion, Investigating the social evolution and development of Ming Dynasty literati aesthetic taste and aesthetic fashion .Also we will probe into the relationship between social life and the culture and the arts in that time .