The Ethereal Phantom——The Aesthetic Ideology Of The Wonderland Of Taoism During Han Dynasty To Tang Dynasty

A lot of religions in our world have a other world which conforms the idea of these religions and the logic of their development history.So does Taoism which has San qingjing,The thirty-six heavens,Wonderland in the mountains and someplace with bliss,The islands living by celestial beings,The twenty-four governance place,Yujing Mountain and Kunlun Mountain.Taoism never stop building its myth system by absorbing the marrow of ancient local myth and foreign religions myth until Tang dynasty since it came into being.The above-mentioned wonderlands is build by this way.The wonderlands system of Taoism is not build in one time,by one person,coming naturally.lt is produced by many wars,mingling and surrender between Taoism and imperial power,Taoism and Buddhism,even some faction in Taoism.The wonderlands seem beautiful and have many celestial beings in there professedly. But every small construction in the wonderlands shows specious.The wonderlands seems everlasting but the truth is it is just a place for Taoist priest worshiping to summon celestial beings.The wonderlands is a specious place which celestial beings and human beings mixed.People feels dizziness by the specious status.Because it is difficult to comprehend this feeling in entirety.But the Semiotics and the Structuralism mythology provides a suitable analysis method.And the study starting from Aesthetics has its unique theoretical and unexpected effect.Some features under the wonderland’s surface are excavated by the analysis of every small myth elements which include valuable objects like gold, palaces and celestial beings and the logic of myth story.The eternal of celestial beings is just the eternal of hedonism. The rank of celestial beings is the confrontation between the beauty of immortal and the beauty of common customs.The beautiful wonderland environment is a piece of muslin above it.It seems heavenly but blend with our world in deep.When the halo of the wonderland is poked,there is nonentity in its inside.The wonderlands of Taoism lost its sanctity and do not form the metaphysical thing-in-itself because too many humanity things mixed in it.It is a place for Taoist priest to live and worship celestial beings.The wonderlands is a kind of halo which is like a phantom or a dream. It ingratiated many Discourse Powers.To some extent, it is the effect of the war in this discourse powers. It also decorated itself constantly to fill the desire that getting rid of the anxiety in living.In short,it is a kind of Aesthetic phantom.The Aesthetic phantom is a collective fancy of eternal live and happy life which produced by the whole Chinese Nation.The fancy is so straightforward so that people do not want to cover up its contradiction and mean.The emphasis of Chinese culture origin is life,and the wonderland of Taoism is the elongation of this emphasis.The wonderlands blooming special radiance with Chinese humanity feature and demand in the long history river.