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Literati's Appreciation of Beauty and Cultural Observation in the Tang Dynasty

Cai Jia-hong

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A literatus is a representative of social awareness and a person to pass on and inherit traditional culture.Under the influence of the history of appreciation of beauty of both sexes in the Tang Dynasty,literati's literary works reflect a moral form of appreciation of beauty with the characteristic of enjoying the beautiful and the good.In the flourishing Tang Dynasty,literati cleared their mind of tension and anxiety from which the literati generally suffered in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,and their aesthetic psynchology was quiester and gentler with official and herimit unifying and Dark Learning and Confucian studies relatively unifying.Along with Buddhist culture of city rising,Buddhist novel of Tang Dynasty,as a new existence of appreciation of beauty,come into being.

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A literatus is a representative of social awareness and a person to pass on and inherit traditional culture.Under the influence of the history of appreciation of beauty of both sexes in the Tang Dynasty,literati's literary works reflect a moral form of appreciation of beauty with the characteristic of enjoying the beautiful and the good.In the flourishing Tang Dynasty,literati cleared their mind of tension and anxiety from which the literati generally suffered in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,and their aesthetic psynchology was quiester and gentler with official and herimit unifying and Dark Learning and Confucian studies relatively unifying.Along with Buddhist culture of city rising,Buddhist novel of Tang Dynasty,as a new existence of appreciation of beauty,come into being.

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A literatus is a representative of social awareness and a person to pass on and inherit traditional culture.Under the influence of the history of appreciation of beauty of both sexes in the Tang Dynasty,literati's literary works reflect a moral form of appreciation of beauty with the characteristic of enjoying the beautiful and the good.In the flourishing Tang Dynasty,literati cleared their mind of tension and anxiety from which the literati generally suffered in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,and their aesthetic psynchology was quiester and gentler with official and herimit unifying and Dark Learning and Confucian studies relatively unifying.Along with Buddhist culture of city rising,Buddhist novel of Tang Dynasty,as a new existence of appreciation of beauty,come into being.

Key concepts: Beauty, Flourishing, Clearance, Buddhism, Aesthetics, Chinese culture, Literature, Art

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