Jiang Kongyang Aesthetic Theory

Practical aesthetics which is originating in the1950s, is themost representative and most popular genre of Chinese aestheticschools, and now still has strong vitality. After the debates betweenpractical and post practical aesthetics scholars, the former hadgradually aware of the defects of practical aesthetics. Therefore agroup of scholars who want to guard practical aesthetics, such asZhu Liyuan, Zhang Yuneng, had widen the internal structure of thepractical aesthetics, and practical ontology aesthetics, the newpractical aesthetics came into being. They have the same teacher,named Jiang Kongyang.As a participant of the20th century50s and60s’ bigdiscussion, Jiang Kongyang is the first to make a significantcontribution to the Chinese aesthetics. People used to think thatJiang Kongyang’s and Li Zehou’s aesthetics theory is the same,because they only see them in common, but ignored the uniqueness,so it is necessary to carry out the comparison; The practical theoryis the footstone of Jiang Kongyang’s aesthetics, the first layer is theaesthetic relationship between man and reality which is thestarting point of aesthetics, the second layer is the creativeaesthetics, and the third layer is the theme of life. Jang Kongyang’saesthetic building is open and inclusive. Moreover, Jiang Kongyang made an outstanding contribution to the world and Chineseaesthetics. His aesthetics photograph echo with the worldaesthetics, and issued the beautiful voice of Chinese aesthetics.I want to make a comprehensive understanding and a detailedexplanation to Jiang Kongyang’s aesthetics, to return to his originalmeaning. There are still many deficiencies to be re-researched.