Yangming's Spirit Of Aesthetic Education

Confucian Aesthetic education thought has a long history,Confucian scholars focus on aesthetic education throughout the entire history of confucianism.As a great of confucianism philosopher,Wang Yangming constructed a grand and complicated aesthetic education theory system based on his own theoretical system of the original nature mind.Through the way of Ontology--Effort-realm,Wang Yangming completed his aesthetic education ideology.Wang Yangming’s aesthetic education thought is not vacant,but the inheritance and development of traditional Confucian aesthetic education.Yangming’s aesthetic education thought inherits the pursuit of the aesthetic realm of " harmony between man and nature " since the pre-Qin Confucianism,and continues the tradition of the Song Neo-confucianism to discuss aesthetic education from the Ontology-Effort system.He believes that aesthetic education is finally the realization of the aesthetic realm of life.For the Confucian consciousness,Yangming also actively assimilated Buddhism and Taoism aesthetics into Confucianism,eventually prompting the formation of aesthetic education system of Yangming.From the point of " Happiness is the original nature of mind ",Wang Yangming found the ontology of "Happiness" for aesthetic education.The ontology of Wang Yangming’s "Happiness" is the embodiment of his concept of "Innate Knowledge" in Yangming’ Philosophy.From the transcendentalism and multidimensional nature of the original mind,Wang Yangming makes it possible for "Happiness" to be the notology of the original mind.Starting from the " The Confucius and Yan Hui’s Happiness ",which was relished by the Neo-Confucianism,Wang Yangming emphasized the relationship between the Innate Knowledge and the Seven sensations and the Happiness in his ontology of aesthetic education.He believes that the Happiness of ontology is true happiness,which is the unobstruction of the Seven sensations and the appearance of the Innate Knowledge.In addition,from the relationship between mind,sensation and nature,Wang Yangming believes that "Happiness is the original nature of mind " also shows the natural happiness of the state of mind,and puts forward the view that peace of mind is happiness.Based on ontological-Effort theory,Wang Yangming holds that Effort of "Happiness is the original nature of mind " is "Effort of Mind" and "Effort of Practice".In Yang Ming’s aesthetic education,the "Effort of Mind" emphasizes the self-presentation of the ontology of "Happiness",which is expressed as the effort of sincerity and intuition;and in the "Effort of Practice",emphasizing that the ontology of "Happiness" is vividly effeected and implemented in the practice of aesthetic education.The specific performance is "Unity of Knowledge and Action" and poetry education.Wang Yangming believes that the realm of aesthetic education should first be truly free and easy,and deal with the relationship between awe(Being of the mind)and free(non-being of the mind).Wang Yangming appreciates the "unrestrained man"very much,especially they show the spiritual of "the unrestrained mind",which is an aesthetic realm of the Innate Knowledge and real happiness.Yang Ming’s aesthetic education finally shows the realm of "the happiness of having oneself" and " the happiness of being without oneself ".This aesthetic realm of life is" harmony between man and nature".The realm of "the happiness of having oneself" means "All Things in an Organic Whole",while the realm of " the happiness of being without oneself "means "doing at will without breaking rules".Yangming’s aesthetic education shows its unique characteristics.On the one hand,it is born in the traditional mind-nature philosophy and optimistic culture,and it is compatible with the aesthetic genes in Chinese blood.On the other hand,Yangming’s aesthetic education’s promotion of subject spirit and personality is in line with the contemporary aesthetic education spirit.Yangming’s aesthetic education enlightens us that the essence of aesthetic education is to shape the spiritual world of human beings,the process of life cultivation,and the aesthetic experience of the unity of body and mind.Yangming’s aesthetic education enlightens us that contemporary aesthetic education should take the unity of aesthetic education and moral cultivation as its fundamental task,and realize the aestheticization of everyday life.In addition,in the construction of a modern aesthetic education system with Chinese characteristics,Yangming’s aesthetic education inspires us to realize the sublation of traditional aesthetic education on the basis of in-depth experience and understanding.Especially based on the ontological-Effort theory,we should return to the attention and research of "the ontology of aesthetic education".