Focusing on Internal Beauty:Traditional Chinese Aesthetic Thought and Its Inheritance and Development

Attaching great importance to internal beauty is a traditional thought in history of Chinese aesthetic,which has an extensive influence on many expects of Chinese aesthetic,such as aesthetic value,aesthetic standard,aesthetic form and aesthetic creation.Some artists and scholars take inner beauty as an important characteristic of traditional Chinese aesthetic.They have developed the thought by the diachronic description or trying to develop a Synchronic theory.In recent years,the theory of inner beauty has been put forward by Wang Jianjiang,who believes inner beauty as a special form of aesthetic different from other western aesthetic.His theory is a new symbol of the development of the traditional thought.