中国古典美学的特点及其基本范畴

The Characteristics and Basic Categories of Classical Chinese Aesthetics

无论是从现代学术文化发展的整体态势来看,还是从中国现代学术发展的成就来看,我们都应该对中国古典美学的规范进行整理发掘,使之成为一个独立的美学体系,与西方美学体系"双峰对峙"。中国古典美学从研究范畴到具体命题到名词术语到学术用语,均自成体系,与西方美学"各说各语"。但殊途同归,两者都是人类对于美的关注和诠释,都是人类对于主观美感和客观美的欣赏与诠释,以及对于人类审美经验的总结。中国古典美学作为东方审美学说,蕴含着深沉丰厚、蕴藉优雅的中国传统文化精魂,总结了中国传统诗歌、散文、词曲、戏剧、绘画、书法等等的审美经验和美的创造的"美学创获",这是中华民族对于人类文化的特殊而巨大的贡献。

Whether from the perspective of the overall situation of the development of modern academic culture, or from the point of view of the development of modern Chinese academic achievements, we should sort out the standards of classical Chinese aesthetics, and make it an independent aesthetic system to confront western aesthetic system. Classical Chinese aesthetics has a system of its own from the research category to concrete propositions, from terminology to academic terms, totally different from western aesthetics. But all roads lead to Rome; both concern and interpret human beauty, both are appreciation and interpretation of subjective aesthetic feeling and objective beauty as well as the summary of human aesthetic experience. Classical Chinese aesthetics, as the Oriental aesthetic theory, contains the deep and rich traditional Chinese cultural spirit and summarizes the aesthetic experience and creation of traditional Chinese poetry, prose, ci-poems and songs, drama, paintings, calligraphy and so on. This is the special and great contributions of the Chinese nation to human culture.