The normal form of "appropriateness and harmoniousness", "two modes of Yin and Yang", and the thinking pattern of "one-two": the sources of the thinking culture of Chinese esthetics spirit

Originated from the unique and profound national thinking culture, Chinese aesthetics takes and harmoniousness as its consummate state and typical theoretical form. At first, the typical form of and harmoniousness is basically constructed by aesthetic contradictory elements, such as sides, opposing extremes, terminals, (namely, two) and so on, which just carries on the thinking mode of the concept of things are produced with in Chinese tradition or the type of modes of Yin and Yang described in Yi. Secondly, the thinking of inseparable dual in Chinese tradition fundamentally differs from the modern western thinking of dualism with subject and object being separated. The essential distinction is that the thinking of inseparable dual cannot be isolated from the cardinal principle of one, paying much attention to the correlation between one and two. The ultimate purpose of setting up two is to expound one. Thirdly, the one explicated from the two essentially possesses the meaning of mid (appropriateness). The combination of appropriateness with the classical aesthetic idea of that Beauty is harmony formed the Chinese unique aesthetical normal form of harmoniousness.