On The "zhuangzi" Aesthetics Of Existence

The special life consciousness of Zhuang Zi begins from attention on individual life. Its primary intention locates on phenomenon that life exists in the limitation of time and the existence of life is full of tribulation and so on and its focus keeps on various bondages life suffers in its duration. The center of his thinking is how to surpass the difficulties people face in the life: how to protect oneself from the unreasonable and desperate chaos, how to realize one's value in hermitage venturing losing ego, and how to improve oneself to the utmost in the worldly sound and fury so as to lead a free and unfettered life…With keen inspection and intensive taste of a master, Zhuang Zi meditated thoroughly and profoundly on related problems. With the four routes of non-action and non-intention, mean and hermitage, meditation in Taoism and unfettered sprit in freedom, transcendent could be realized and, naturally and harmoniously, the freedom of in-action existence and life in according temperament, namely natural existence of aestheticism, could be reached. In comparison with the representative theories of Nietzsche and Foucault in western existence-aestheticism, it is made distinct in this paper that the super-human with profound mighty of life is the worthy pursue of individuality.Nevertheless, transcendent in Zhuang Zi's theory appears solemn and reluctant due to his being incapable on worldly situation and the weakness of spiritual power against the hardship of life. From Zhuang Zi to Confucius and Mencius, from theorists in dynasties of Wei and Jin to others in the future, to lead a life in pursuing real beauty remains a field never being out of date, as well as one of the various options inevitable and imperative in life. At the same time, just because of the core characteristics of people as human beings and the fact that human life is irrevocable, such a life style embodies more essence as the eternity of man's value and significance. Life multiplies itself and livelihood forwards on and on. In whatever style it exists, the infinite possibilities of existence deserve study and anticipation.