The Influence Of Zen Thought On The Aesthetic Taste Of Tang And Song Dynasties

The two generation of the Tang and Song Dynasties is the heyday of the Chinese Zen Buddhism, but also the most prosperous period of ancient Chinese society. This is not a coincidence. There is a positive correlation between the two, from a certain sense, the heyday of Buddhism has an immeasurable effect on increasing cohesion, heal the tear of society, guiding the good and forsaking the evil,expanding horizon and some other aspects.It is a kind of religion, but the ideological meaning of Zen long ago left the realm of religion.Chan master have the impulse of beyond the outdated customs and bad habits, challenging Buddhaholy challenge authority, breaking the precepts of Buddhism and point to the heart.It advocates the self enlightenment, enlightenment Buddhahood, emphasizing everyone has the Buddha nature, everyone can become a Buddha, completely rely on subjective consciousness awakening sense.This kind of spirit of point about bold innovation and development, having a huge force to promote the prosperity of society and the further development.This paper selects the Tang and Song Dynasties is representative of poetry and poetry theory as the object of study, focuses on the aesthetic taste of the Tang and Song Dynasties to the influence of elements were analyzed, through the analysis and research, found that the Zen thought in this evolution, to actively promote and stimulate derivative action.Also try to have a limited view of art form dense atmosphere steeped in Zen, make its appearance deformation occurred.Buddhism entered China from the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty.Zen Buddhism obtained unprecedented development in the Tang Dynasty, as the representative schools since Buddhism in China, the idea coincides with the poetry of the Tang Dynasty art blending intersection, greatly affected the from Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty poetry appearance, when poets seek ethereal realm, compared before with no Zen, aesthetic taste occurred changes radically different.The art of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the aesthetic paradigm, appear quiet, ethereal, comfortable, leisurely, without me, mood, Gao Yi etc.. Jiaoran, Sikong Tu and Yan Yu’s poetics, are all influenced by Zen thought.This thesis tries to Tang and Song poetry and the poetry theory do to sort out research and through Zen thought of the new art elements constitute the function analysis to explore the influence factor of the Zen in the transformation of from the "Zen".In recent years, there are many research results about the transformation of aesthetic interest in Tang and Song Dynasty poetry.The focus of this paper is to investigate the changes of art expression form and aesthetic interest before and after the period of the influence and effect of Zen on social upper level.By comparison, the comparison between the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Tang and Song Dynasties is used as a contrast to clarify the change and development.The scale of interest and art criticism in poetry creation is the object of the study. Through the two aspects of the study, the reasons for the aesthetic transformation of the Tang and Song dynasties are derived.The life, taste and cultural pursuit of scholars in the Tang and Song Dynasties, behind the hidden is this change factor.