Why does China's classical traditional aesthetics-philosophy have a great influence on China's traditional art?

China's culture is "meaning and writing first", thought first, and then expressed in various forms as the carrier. Art is just one of the forms of expression.

First, we should distinguish the basic concepts and laws of China's ancient philosophy and classical aesthetics, and then we can analyze their influence on China's traditional art.

From Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Taoism's "harmony between man and nature" actually means that man and the universe are a unity, and everything is made up of "qi", which is the "etheric body", that is, the plasma state confirmed by modern scientific circles. Because of the operation of yin and yang, qi is transformed into concrete things: Tao gives birth to one, life gives birth to two, life gives birth to three and life gives birth to three. Taoism emphasizes the unity and harmony between man and the universe. Reflected in literature and plastic arts. For example, Zhuangzi's articles, Tao Yuanming's poems, and China literati's yearning for a paradise all stem from the pursuit of the ideal of "finding a place where man and nature live in harmony". The pastoral poetry of Chinese painting is the harmonious and peaceful coexistence between man and nature, and so are other arts. Geomantic omen is a specific subject about how to find a suitable environment in nature, which has great influence on architecture and gardens. The principle of qi pulse in traditional Chinese medicine is the same as that in Taoism. Geomantic omen refers to the veins of the environment, while Chinese medicine refers to the small veins of the human body, but they are all unified with "heaven", that is, the universe.

Buddhists will know the truth of life in the universe with their wisdom. However, because Buddhists speak the highest truth, people at different levels will understand it like a blind man touching an elephant, so the Buddha used a personal teaching method suitable for all levels to guide people to approach the truth step by step. What we see most in traditional plastic arts are the methods used by people at the bottom of cognition: Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures paintings and various symbolic objects. Due to people's cognitive inertia, people only stay in idolatry, unwilling to delve into the true meaning behind it, resulting in more and more shapes and more complex, and even after entering secular life, it is more difficult to find its roots. Buddhist modeling is basically a story of Buddhist scriptures, and it is a diagram that Buddha's words and deeds help us gain wisdom and liberation. The art of Zen is a higher level of Buddhist artistic expression.

Confucianism, after Confucius understood the great wisdom of Laozi, took the second best and practiced various methods in some simple and easy-to-understand ways. In our daily life, the most contact is Confucian education, and zf has been governing the country with Confucianism since ancient times, so I won't go into details here. Confucianism mainly teaches people how to restrain themselves with etiquette, so that life becomes more approachable and people get along more harmoniously, and there is not much expression in plastic arts. Confucianism has cultivated the pragmatic tendency of our nation, and now people are deeply influenced by it!