The Study About Jia Baoyu And Guang Yuanshi's "General Love" In Aesthetic Culture

Jia Baoyu and Guang Yuanshi are the two most famous characters about"General Love"in the history of world literature. For the study of their"General Love", there is a traditional comment in the academy circles: Jia Baoyu is better than Guang Yuanshi. However, if we review them in the aesthetic culture, we can get a different answer.There is a long history of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange. During the long history, on the one hand, the Japanese aesthetics absorbed the Confucianism's"Harmony"aesthetic culture tradition and the Buddhism's"Empty"aesthetic culture tradition from China; on the other hand, it also keep the"Sadness", its own national aesthetic characteristic which based on its old"True Emotion View", to distinguish"Kindness", the Chinese national aesthetic characteristic which based on its traditional"Ethics View". Just because this similar but different relationship, the Jia and Yuan's"General Love"can both have surprising consistency and aesthetic difference in nature. The aesthetic culture has no right or wrong, it's just the national collective unconscious accumulated in the long course of development, which dues to the different geographical environment,the different living habit and so on. Therefore, from the aesthetic culture angle, we cannot tell which is better between Jia and Yuan's"General Love". And it's arbitrary to enhance the"General Love", no matter it's belong to Jia or Yuan. Instead, the advantage of eastern aesthetic culture and the characteristic of national aesthetic culture it shows for us is just the culture treasure which we should understand and appreciate best.Consequently, the article will do the reinterpretation of Jia Baoyu and Guang Yuanshi's"General Love"in aesthetic culture, looking forward to show the deep culture meaning and aesthetic value which is behind them. And at the same time, the article also expect that through this discussion, we can meditate and enrich our own aesthetic system, by learning and absorbing the aesthetic tradition of the other nation, so that the Chinese aesthetics can be strengthen in its own updated process.