Leisure And Cultural Aesthetic Thinking

1. Significance of selected topic Nowadays people have more and more spare time with the development of global economy. Leisure is the one of important features in our age. The quality of leisure directly influences society to be full-scale developing and progressing, and whether people can develop themselves completely, fully, and healthily. Thinking of leisure and value of life, aesthetic contemplation of leisure culture renews human spirit coordinate in order to promote self-examination for present leisure life, and make agreements on signification of life, pursuit of value and real happiness of life. 2. Gains from studies The definition of leisure is the basis of the essay in the process of thinking leisure aesthetically; therefore, the large part of the essay defines and introduces "leisure",including its definition,essential features and Marxism on leisure time. The leisure defined in the essay is a relative free life,which releases from outside pressure of culture and material circumstances. It should be understood as a process of "being human", which means a freedom away from "necessities", and explores the principle of harmony and beauty.The relationship between leisure and aesthetics is a main point in the essay. The aesthetic concepts in ancient China, such as "travel", "enjoy", "make mental journey", "mold temperament", "taste", are related to leisure .On the other hand, the ideas in western aesthetics, "games", "beyond the world", "self-Realization" link up with leisure.The state of leisure becomes a prerequisite and condition of aesthetics, and spare time and mental state of leisure make aesthetics to be inevitainty, which behaviors may promote arts recreation and provide aesthetics with time and objects. Secondly, the culture connotation of aesthetics directly affect on the quality of leisure life and the meanings of being human natures. Leisure concerns "existing and becoming" as a target freedom, which accords with the internal standard of human nature and expresses the prosodic forms of human nature. Only conforming to the necessity of the internal standard, leisure can be activated and adjusted on the level of human nature and life, which positive significance for human beings makes itself to be a valuable object of aesthetics. 3. Main points of content The essay has two parts. The first part expounds the ideas and features of leisure from the development of its definition in human history and the illumination of Marxism on leisure time. The second part discusses the relationship between leisure and aesthetics from three aspects: the analysis of popular leisure ideas, the basic relationship between leisure and aesthetics, the elevation of leisure culture in aesthetics.