Re-discuss the Naissance of Artistic Conception of Chinese Classical Aesthetics

As a core category of Chinese classical aesthetics, artistic conception highly cemented Chinese historical experiences and philosophical wisdoms. The Nothingness ideology of Taoist and Chan is a philosophical premise of artistic conception's naissance, and this kind of philosophy's turning to the mental is the direct cause of artistic conception's being created. In the view of the relationship between imago and artistic conception, the imago is a category belonging to epistemology or physics in the tradition of Zhouyi, which is not only far from the artistic conception in aesthetic level, but also has not possibility transiting to artistic conception. The imago in aesthetic level takes root from Taoist, especially Zhuangzhou, and its transition to artistic conception relies on the help of Buddhism or the Chan.