An Analysis of Zong Baihua's Aesthetic Research Methods

In the preface of Strolling in Aesthetics,Mr. Li Zehou contrasted Zhu Guangqian and Zong Baihua,the two great masters of aesthetics,believing that Zhu is a scholar whose aesthetic ideas are inferential,modern,Western and scientificwhile Zong is a poet with lyric,classical,Chinese and artisticideas. This remark highlights the strollingform,poeticized language and classical Chinese characteristics of Zong's aesthetic system,but also let people relatively neglect its philosophical accumulation and logic thinking or even overlook the methodology behind its aesthetic construction. In fact,Zong's aesthetic research follows a set of systematic and rigorous methods under his vivid and exquisite words,from cross-cultural to interdisciplinary and cross-arts. This set of systematic methods is still of important significance to aesthetic and artistic research today.