What are the aspects of Confucius' aesthetic thought

Confucius's aesthetic thought centers on the unity of "beauty" and "goodness", as well as the unity of form and content. Confucius advocated "poetic education", that is, the combination of literature and art with politics and morality, and regarded literature and art as a means of social and political change, and an important way to cultivate morals. Moreover, Confucius believed that a perfect man should cultivate himself in poetry, etiquette and music. Confucius's aesthetic thought had a great influence on the theory of literature and art in later times.

Confucius clearly put forward the famous aesthetics propositions such as "beauty is in it" and "seeing is believing" in Yijing. Published by the People's Publishing House, "The Child Asked for Easy" puts forward the beauty of Yizong on the basis of Yizong - the beauty of masculinity and femininity; the beauty of life; the beauty of freedom; and the beauty of neutralization. It is believed that "the beauty of yin and yang, the beauty of life, the beauty of freedom, and the beauty of neutrality can be called the Zong of aesthetics". --Art of Common Sense Chapter.