What does Wang Fuzhi use to define aesthetic feeling?

Wang Fuzhi defines beauty with present quantity.

Aesthetic connotation of Wang Fuzhi's theory of quantity: Wang Fuzhi is a master of China's traditional aesthetic thought and poetic thought. As a pair of important categories in China's traditional aesthetics, "Emotion" and "Scenery" were systematically and comprehensively summarized by him.

His exposition of the relationship between scenes greatly surpassed the predecessors' theories, thus pushing the aesthetic research on the law of China's classical lyric poetry creation to the peak. When discussing the creation of beauty, Wang Fuzhi borrowed the theory of "present quantity" and emphasized that poetry should be found from "understanding eyes" and "not from famous words", thus showing his concern and outstanding views on literature and art represented by poetry creation in ancient China.

Thinker Wang Fuzhi introduced:

Wang Fuzhi (161910/October 7th-1692 February 18) was born in Hengyang County (now Hengyang, Hunan Province).

He, Gu, and Huang Zongxi are called the three great thinkers in Ming and Qing Dynasties. His works include Zhouyi Zhuan, Huangshu, Shangshu Yi Yin, Records of Li Yong, Chunqiu, Nightmare, Zi Zhi Tong Jian, On Song Dynasty and so on. Wang Fuzhi studied with his father and brother since childhood. Wang Fuzhi took an active part in the anti-Qing uprising when he was young. In his later years, Wang Fuzhi lived in seclusion in Ishikawa Mountain. He was a thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, wrote books and made biographies, was a patient of Chuanshan and a follower of South Vietnam, so scholars called him Mr. Chuanshan.