Why is "mood" an important category in traditional Chinese aesthetics? Please discuss the characteristics of artistic mood in relation to specific works of art.

Because context is an important category in the classical Chinese aesthetic tradition, Chinese classical poems, paintings, writings, fugues, calligraphy, music, architecture, and opera all attach great importance to context.

Taking landscape as an example, the mountain is benevolent, while the water is wise. This combination was originally taken out of the classics of Taoism and Confucianism, and it's like playing with a terrier; as soon as this subject is taken out, those who know a little about poetry and literature will know what he's trying to say.

The rest is to look at the shape, the shape is to express their own meaning, what kind of landscape is how to understand. Early Tang landscapes full and strong, only high gas, with line and color, all stable and sharp champion for a while, the same period of poetry and text is also the same, bold as Su Shi can not write half of Taibai's bones is exactly the same, the times are different meteorological also different.

Historical background:

And the mood of both from the artist's subjective "love", but also from the objective reality of the sublimation of the "realm", "love" and "realm" are "Situation" is organically fused together, there is love in the situation, love in the situation. And this mood is the subjective emotion and objective scenery is the product of melting, it is the unity of love and scenery, meaning and situation.