Traditional Chinese aesthetics considers beauty to be beauty in imagery

Traditional Chinese aesthetics believes that beauty is in the imagery. It is the "blending of scenes," the harmony of emotions and scenes, and the flow of air.

There are two concepts of beauty, one of which is what we often call "beauty" in our daily lives, such as eating a popsicle on a hot summer's day, you would say "how beautiful!" When you are hungry, you can't wait to say, "I want to have a good meal," these are the concepts of beauty in daily life, and there is a concept of beauty in the field of aesthetics, these two concepts should be differentiated, there is a fundamental difference.

Secondly, there is a difference between the broad and narrow sense of beauty, the narrow sense of beauty is that we talk about beauty in the aesthetic category, this beauty is the ancient Greek beauty, emphasizing simplicity, integrity and harmony, but the beauty of the field of aesthetics is not the beauty of the aesthetics of beauty is a broader sense of the beauty of the aesthetics of the beauty of the beauty of the aesthetics of the aesthetics of the aesthetics of the ethereal, elegant, sparse, rich, ugly, comedy, tragedy, absurdity and other aesthetic forms.

In the history of Western aesthetics, it was Plato who first discussed the issue of beauty, and in one of his dialogues, Plato specifically explored the two issues of "what is beautiful" and "what is beauty", and argued that these are two completely different issues. The question of "what is beautiful" and "what is beauty?

Plato believed that there is an essence of beauty behind beautiful things and beautiful phenomena, and the task of the philosopher is to find this essence of beauty.