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Three Solutions on the Differences Between Chinese and Western Ancient "Beauty" Category

Ling Shi

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Beauty is common and important category in aesthetics to all peoples in the world,but in grasping the category itself,there are significant differences between China and the West.The most prominence of them manifests three major aspects: Fist,in origin,Beauty category is distinguished between highlighting the taste beauty and emphasizing seeing and hearing beauty.Second,it has difference between relationship-functional beauty and entity-form beauty,in specific referring to beauty.Third,in the theoretic thinking,it differs in the tendency of rational thing or savvy and intuition.It is helpful in launching the dialogue and communication between China and the West and helpful in the healthy development of aesthetics to research the differences and sort out category.

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Beauty is common and important category in aesthetics to all peoples in the world,but in grasping the category itself,there are significant differences between China and the West.The most prominence of them manifests three major aspects: Fist,in origin,Beauty category is distinguished between highlighting the taste beauty and emphasizing seeing and hearing beauty.Second,it has difference between relationship-functional beauty and entity-form beauty,in specific referring to beauty.Third,in the theoretic thinking,it differs in the tendency of rational thing or savvy and intuition.It is helpful in launching the dialogue and communication between China and the West and helpful in the healthy development of aesthetics to research the differences and sort out category.

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Beauty is common and important category in aesthetics to all peoples in the world,but in grasping the category itself,there are significant differences between China and the West.The most prominence of them manifests three major aspects: Fist,in origin,Beauty category is distinguished between highlighting the taste beauty and emphasizing seeing and hearing beauty.Second,it has difference between relationship-functional beauty and entity-form beauty,in specific referring to beauty.Third,in the theoretic thinking,it differs in the tendency of rational thing or savvy and intuition.It is helpful in launching the dialogue and communication between China and the West and helpful in the healthy development of aesthetics to research the differences and sort out category.

Key concepts: Beauty, Aesthetics, Intuition, China, Psychology, Art, History, Cognitive science

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