传统礼乐一体性及美学重构的三个维度

中国文化之核心乃礼乐传统,它在国家的制度实践和儒家人文知识中,始终保持着某种内在的一体性。自西学东渐以来,学人在以现代的学术观念接引礼乐时,二者开始分化到不同学科和领域,日益丧失其原有面貌和精神。但是近现代又有一些学人,认识到礼乐精神,在现代美学视域中,重构其一体性论述。总括起来,这种重构有以下三个维度:第一,礼最基本的含义是礼义和礼仪,作为一种表现情感的形式和象征符号体系,与乐相同,同样是美和艺术;第二,传统礼和乐相互渗透与涵摄,在美学中表现为艺术审美与政治道德的水乳交融;第三,“兴于诗,立于礼,成于乐”是一条实现人性解放的递升之路,从礼到乐是审美境界攀升的连续性表征。

The core of Chinese culture is the tradition of Li and Yue,which has always maintained some inherent unity in the practice of national system and Confucian humanistic knowledge.But since the beginning of the western learning spreading to the East,when the scholars explained Li and Yue(rites and music)with modern academic concepts,the two began to separate,belonging to different disciplines and lose their original features increasingly.However,in modern times,there are some scholars who perceive the spirit of Li and Yue and reconstruct their discourse of unity from the perspective of modern aesthetics.To sum up,there are three dimensions to this reconstruction:first,The basic meaning of Li is etiquette and rite.Li,as a form of expression of emotion and symbolic symbol system,is the same as Yue,the same as beauty and art;Second,traditional Li and Yue(rites and music)permeate and contain each other,which is reflected in the integration of art and morality as well as aesthetics and politics from an aesthetic perspective.Third,from Li and Yue(ritual to music),this is the continuous representation of the rising of the aesthetic realm.