Research On Zhou Zuoren's Art Aesthetic Idea

For a long time,scholars mainly focused on Zhou Zuoren as a writer and thinker,and relatively ignored other important identity features of Zhou Zuoren.This article attempts to treat Zhou Zuoren with a broader perspective,and positions Zhou Zuoren as an artist in a broad sense.On the basis of previous studies,this is the first time to comprehensively and systematically sort out Zhou Zuoren's artistic activities.As an artist,Zhou Zuoren not only has a very rich and complex art activities,but also involves a variety of specific art activities such as literary activities,fine arts activities,music activities,drama activities,dance activities,etc.,and also advocates the "artistic life" —— "Take life as an art and live beautifully in subtle beauty".Zhou Zuoren combined art and life to form a unique art world of his own,and was guided by a clear artistic aesthetic idea.Zhou Zuoren's artistic aesthetic idea seems to be loose and unsystematic.In fact,"Mean" has always been its core connotation(or main axis).Not only does Zhou Zuoren's artistic activities revolve around "Mean",but Zhou Zuoren's "art of life" is also "Mean"."Mean" as the core connotation of Zhou Zuoren's artistic aesthetic idea has undergone three levels of transformation.First of all,Zhou Zuoren used "wisdom" instead of "rites"to reform and update the "mean" view attached to the traditional ethical and moral system,completing the old "mean virtue" to the new "mean virtue" The modern transformation of".Secondly,at the methodological level,Zhou Zuoren absorbed the reasonable elements of the traditional "mean" thought and accepted the "dual use" aesthetic method,which made the "mean" from ethical and moral norms to artistic aesthetics operable.Finally,in terms of aesthetic sentiment,Zhou Zuoren injects new nourishment on the basis of inheriting the ancient traditions,and takes "the beauty of neutrality" as the ideal artistic feature of "joy but not prostitution,sadness but not hurt".Whether in art creation or art appreciation,he consciously pursued the balance and temperance of ancient Greece.As an artist,in the nearly 60 years of long and arduous art practice,Zhou Zuoren used the"mean" artistic aesthetic idea as the driving force for his ultimate artistic purpose,and successfully created a full of internal art order and special The art world of structural approach.Therefore,we can say that "the mean" is not only the core connotation of Zhou Zuoren's artistic aesthetic idea,but also the origin and final destination of his artistic activities."Mean" is the core connotation of Zhou Zuoren's artistic aesthetic idea.The formation of Zhou Zuoren's "mean" thought is closely related to his unique path of life.He entered the Chinese literary world in the historical background of the collision and fusion of Chinese and Western cultures.The closeness to the primitive Confucian "mean" thought laid the initial roots for the formation of Zhou Zuoren's doctrine of "mean" and helped him form the psychological structure of "mean".Consciously admiring the beauty of balanced temperance in ancient Greece not only strengthened and enriched the psychological structure of Zhou Zuoren's "mean",but also made his "mean" spirit truly mature.The recognition of the British psychic psychology thought and the tempered "art of life" has on the one hand contributed to the true formation of Zhou Zuoren's "mean" thought,and on the other hand made Zhou Zuoren's inherent "mean" thought modern is distinguished from the traditional "mean" thought.