Inheriting Tradition,Manifesting Modernity,Reconciling And Compromising Eastern And Western Aesthetics

This paper explores Zhu Guangqian's creative transformation to Chinese traditional aesthetics in the historical period of transition from traditional to modern,through the background carding and theoretical explanation of Zhu Guangqian's early aesthetic thought.The theory of aesthetic experience of Zhu Guangqian stripped away the nothingness of Lao-Zhuang's Taoist thoughts,denying the subordination of the individual to the monarchy in the traditional society.Zhu Guangqian's theory of literature and art has inherited the literary tradition of “Poems Expressing Wills” and “poems origins from affection”.It retains the Ritual Music Spirit of “Tao” in the “writing conveying Tao” theory,eliminates the metaphysical color of using "qu" to criticize the poetry on the poetic tradition,changes the basic starting point of "Tao",and corrects the traditional monistic thinking mode of cultural radicalism and cultural conservatism in the period of the May 4th Movement,which adds theoretical self-consciousness to the traditional sentiment of the Chinese-style poetry.Zhu Guangqian's life aesthetics connects art and life with emotion,advocates the artistic life,broke the ethical shackles of traditional aesthetics,and diluted the rational tendency of western aesthetics,which is the ideological crystallization of Chinese modern aesthetics.As a representative of intellectuals during the May Fourth period,Zhu Guangqian is the theoretical pioneer of Chinese modern aesthetics.Facing the increasingly profound national crisis and the trend of the times of Western learning,on the basis of the modern thought of humanism and in the modern cultural context of constructing subjectivity,Zhu Guangqian liberated the aesthetic subject and the creative subject from the traditional order of rites,liberated the individual's nature from the oppression of traditional ethics and morals.It fully excavates the role of human's subjective will and subjective emotion in artistic activities.People are free to gallop in the beautiful world of art,discovering themselves,nourishing their temperament,perfecting their personality,to obtaining new life.The nation transfers its vitality in the cultivation of the beauty of the arts,opens new ideas,transforms reality,and approaches modernity.To clarify the creative transformation of Zhu Guangqian's early aesthetic thought to Chinese traditional aesthetics has a positive guiding significance for the ongoing creative transformation of traditional culture.