美是生命的运动──中国古代审美精神的基本特征

Aesthetic Perception IS from Dynamic Life──A Basic Feature of Chinese Ancient Aesthetic Standards

中国先民对美的观照从对自身生命运动的自我体验开始，升华为“美是生命运动”的核心理念，泛化出宇宙万物都有生命因而都是美的“天人合一”审美观。本文抓住这个命题，论述了由命题展开和延伸出来的中国古代审美活动（创造与接受）相关的缘情。逍遥、虚无、传神、自然诸范畴的内涵与实质，从而揭示出中国古代审美精神现象的基本特征。其中对于逍遥美范畴的提出，强调了审美本质即逍遥也即自由，具有原创性。

The Chinese ancient's concern with beauty started with the experience of their own dynamic lives. And then an idea that aesthetic perception is from dynamic life was distilled to be the central mind of aesthetics. And this idea was extended to be another aesthetic standand everything in the world is beautiful for its life, that is, nature and human beings fuse together. In view of the above topic, the present paper analyzes many ancient aesthetic actions concerning with this topic, creating and accepting. From the substance and connotation of such terms as fates and feelings, free and unfettered states, nothingness, life likeness, nature and soon. The writer got basic feature of the Chinese ancients' aesthetic standards. Especially, the notes to the term, free and unfettered emphasize on the facts of aesthetic standards, that is, free is unfettered too, which has and original meaning.