What is the highest aesthetic ideal of ancient art in China?

The theme of China's ancient poems is "gentle and honest", which is closely related to the Chinese nation's temperament, living conditions, geographical environment, philosophy, ethics and other cultural factors. Another kind of art is also pursuing this point, which is manifested in the implicit beauty and inner beauty in plastic arts.

Sculpture, too, China ancient sculpture gives people the feeling that it is not as clear and vivid as western classical sculpture, but it has no head and its meaning is still unfinished. There is no nervous, outward anger, but like China's book brush hidden front, wrapped strength in it, giving people more aftertaste. For example, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, the female figurines singing and dancing in Han and Tang Dynasties, the mighty king Lux in Tang Dynasty, and even the powerful evil spirits in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the stone lions in Tang Dynasty all have this effect.

By comparing the tension and generation of the discus thrower's strength with the violent catharsis of laocoon's emotions, we can appreciate the aesthetic characteristics of ancient China sculptures. It is consistent with the aesthetic ideal of other ancient arts in China, just as the aesthetic ideal of western sculpture and painting is also consistent. When you appreciate China sculpture, you may feel that it is not as smooth as western sculpture, just like drinking tea and coffee. Drinking tea requires taste. If you are not familiar with the tea ceremony, you will never enter the realm of tea.

The style of western classical sculpture is close to the former system, but there are few style characteristics of the latter system. Gu Zhuo in ancient Greece was a natural product of the naive stage of artistic skills, not a deliberately pursued style. Chinese painting and sculpture, on the other hand, are interested in returning to nature and maturity, pursuing an inner beauty, an original beauty and an ingenious philosophical spiritual realm. These pursuits are difficult to understand from the perspective of western art, so people who are used to appreciating realistic sculptures always have obstacles when appreciating ancient sculptures in China. Therefore, it is necessary to improve China's traditional cultural accomplishment and fundamentally understand China's art, otherwise it will be difficult to appreciate or create.