What is the main content of Confucian aesthetics?

The center of Confucian aesthetics is to repeatedly discuss the consistency of beauty and goodness, demand the unity of beauty and goodness, attach great importance to the psychological function of beauty and art in cultivating, coordinating and improving people's ethical and moral feelings, emphasize the positive role of art in promoting the harmonious development of society, and fully, clearly and consciously examine aesthetics and art from people's internal requirements, rather than from the external beliefs of religious theology. From this point of view, Confucian aesthetics highlights that the natural form of beauty contains social content, which makes Confucian aesthetics have lofty moral spirit, but at the same time makes beauty equal to goodness, ignoring the independent value of beauty different from goodness, and then makes people's appreciation of natural beauty often deviate from some narrow moral comparative preaching, requiring nature to be attached to and conform to the realistic norms and order of the world, thus restricting the correct understanding and appreciation of nature.

Confucian aesthetics is closely related to social life and political state. As an important aesthetic principle, "harmony" (harmony between people) itself contains the unity of regularity and purpose. Its focus is not on objects and entities, but on functions, relationships and rhythms. As a contradictory structure, it emphasizes the mutual penetration and coordination of opposites, rather than the rejection and conflict of opposites. As a reflection, emotional appeal is more the expression of inner life interest than the fidelity of simulation and the credibility of reproduction; As an effect, it emphasizes the combination of reason and reason and the wisdom hidden in emotion to achieve harmony and satisfaction in life, rather than irrational fanaticism or transcendental belief; As an image, more emphasis is placed on emotional beauty and magnificence, rather than fatalistic fear or tragic sublimity.

Judging from the overall charm of Confucian philosophy, its thought is mainly external, and it attaches great importance to the internal view, but its internal view must ultimately serve its external appearance. This is what we often say: "cultivation, equality, equality and governance". Similarly, Confucian aesthetics is also based on the ethics, morality and responsibility of appearance in artistic aesthetics, that is to say, it requires beauty to resort to sensory pleasure on the one hand and have.