The Study On Zhu Youdun's Aesthetic Conception

As a vassal state owner of Ming Dynasty,Zhu Youdun was in the center of the political struggle,but choose the way of literary creation finally.Zhu Youdun had written a lot,including poetic drama,sanqu,poetry,etc.Zhu has been deeply influenced by Confucianism and Taoism culture.The main expression is the acceptance of Confucianism in the early stage and the ideological transformation from the Confucianism to the Taoism in the later period.The aesthetic thought of zhu has been mainly embodied in his works.Based on the political and cultural background of Ming dynasty and the life experience of Zhu Youdun,this paper analyzes and studies Zhu Youdun and his works,and then discusses the Confucian and Taoist aesthetic thoughts of Zhu Youdun.In the introduction part of the paper,the research status about Zhu has been combed and summarized,the research significance,research methods and innovation of this topic are introduced.The first chapter give an overview about Ming's economic,political,cultural policy,and introduced the Zhu Youdun life to illustrate Zhu Youdun's accept conditions and realistic basis to Taoist thought,also introduced Zhu Youdun's works.The second chapter focuses on the Confucian aesthetic thoughts embodied in Zhu's works.Firstly,the influence of Zhu's life on the formation of Confucian aesthetic ideology is explained.In this paper,we discuss the pursuit of the art and aesthetics of elegance.The Confucian aesthetic thought reflected in the entertainment and praises works;The aesthetic value orientation that giving equal weight to emotion and method.The third chapter introduces the Taoist aesthetic thoughts embodied in Zhu's works.Zhu has a life experience that led to his change of thought from Confucianism to Taoism.Zhu's Taoist aesthetic thought mainly reflects Taoism's pursuit of "kindness" and the aesthetic pursuit of "expensive life" and "long life".Zhu's Taoist aesthetic thought contains the contents of Confucianism,which embodies the ideological trend of "syncretism of the three religion" in the Ming dynasty.