What is the conclusion of the first chapter of The Course of Beauty?

Huaxia Aesthetics refers to China's traditional aesthetics with Confucianism as the main body: its long historical root lies in the non-Dionysian ritual and music tradition, and some of its basic viewpoints, categories, problems to be solved and contradictions contained in it have long been included in this traditional root. Therefore, how to deal with social and natural, emotion and form, art and politics, the relationship between heaven and man, and how to understand the humanization of nature and the naturalization of man have become the focus of China's aesthetics.

The author gradually discusses the ancient rites and music, the humanity of Confucius and Mencius, Zhuang Sheng's carefree life, Qu Zi's deep affection and the metaphysical pursuit of Zen, and draws the conclusion that China's philosophy, aesthetics, literature and art, and even ethical politics are all based on a kind of psychology, which is not the object of some empirical science, but a philosophical proposition based on emotion. This is not God, morality or reason, but the psychology of combining human reason with reason. It is both "transcendental" and internal, both perceptual and super-perceptual, for aesthetic metaphysics.