The Confucian Spirit of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics

Confucian aestheticsConfuciusConfucian aesthetics is an important component of traditional Chinese culture. Indeed, it made significant contributions to the creation of the spirit of traditional Chinese aestheticsaestheticstraditional Chinese aesthetics. The main forms of the Confucian spiritConfuciusthe Confucian spirit in traditional Chinese aestheticsaestheticstraditional Chinese aesthetics are constituted by the spirit of “virtue comparison” [比德 bi de] in natural beautybeautynatural beauty, the spirit of “moralmorality\“moral integrity\” integritymoralmoral integrity” [fenggu (风骨moral integrity) 风骨] in character beauty, the spirit of “balanced harmony” [中和 zhonghe“balanced harmony” (中和 zhonghe)] in social beautybeautysocial beauty, the spirit of “regulation” [节制 jiezhi] in emotional beauty, the spirit of “pensiveness and concerns” [沉郁 chenyu\“chenyu\” (沉郁pensive and concerning)] in artistic and inner beauty, and the pursuit for “being purposive” [中的 zhongdi] in literary beautybeautyliterary beauty.