Over the years, in the process of work and study, there are more and more intersections with the aesthetic field. Think about the topic of "beauty", which has become popular all over the world, and countless Tessa and literati have expressed their views and opinions. So sometimes I really want to make my own "statement" about the magical word "beauty".

On the topic of beauty, I first think that only contrast can distinguish it. Compared with western aesthetics, we have never asked what beauty is in China culture. As the saying goes, "there is great beauty in heaven and earth, but we are answering what is beauty." Just like our philosophy, we don't think about what the world is, but explain what the world is like. The authors of aesthetic concepts, categories, theories and propositions put forward in China's aesthetic history are not mainly philosophers and aestheticians as in the West, but artists, poets and even many politicians. They do not pay attention to rational logic, concepts and reasoning, but are often entangled with personal health, social patriarchal clan system and secular ethics, which has obvious intuitive experience and polysemy characteristics.

Compared with the west, our thinking logic on the topic of beauty is fundamentally different, that is, we are inductive thinking, we don't ask the essence of beauty, but Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism complement each other and integrate the three religions; It is the blend of literature, history and philosophy, and the unity of reason and sensibility; It is pan-aestheticization and the integration of ethics and aesthetics. The west is deductive thinking, seeking the unity and identity of beauty in the world.

? Therefore, China's aesthetics is a typical experiential aesthetics, or poetic aesthetics, which is closer to life than human life aesthetics.