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The Textual Research of the Origin of "Beauty" and "Wen" in Zhou Yi

Xi Zhang

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The and Wen originate from the HanZhang in Iching. Hanzhang is the foothold of the elevation from the beauty on earth to the beauty in heaven, and is the guide that separated the strong heaven form obscure witchcraft and made it correspondent with the graceful earth, and is the origin of the unity of both the inner and outer beauty of the ideal personality as well. It opens the large scope for building up the ideal personality. There is both similarity and difference between Zhang and Wen . Zhang from the concrete to the abstract centers on the concrete, however Wen from the abstract to the concrete, focus on the abstract. The difference between them proves the implication of the aesthetics of Iching only in the HanZhang 

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The and Wen originate from the HanZhang in Iching. Hanzhang is the foothold of the elevation from the beauty on earth to the beauty in heaven, and is the guide that separated the strong heaven form obscure witchcraft and made it correspondent with the graceful earth, and is the origin of the unity of both the inner and outer beauty of the ideal personality as well. It opens the large scope for building up the ideal personality. There is both similarity and difference between Zhang and Wen . Zhang from the concrete to the abstract centers on the concrete, however Wen from the abstract to the concrete, focus on the abstract. The difference between them proves the implication of the aesthetics of Iching only in the HanZhang 

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The and Wen originate from the HanZhang in Iching. Hanzhang is the foothold of the elevation from the beauty on earth to the beauty in heaven, and is the guide that separated the strong heaven form obscure witchcraft and made it correspondent with the graceful earth, and is the origin of the unity of both the inner and outer beauty of the ideal personality as well. It opens the large scope for building up the ideal personality. There is both similarity and difference between Zhang and Wen . Zhang from the concrete to the abstract centers on the concrete, however Wen from the abstract to the concrete, focus on the abstract. The difference between them proves the implication of the aesthetics of Iching only in the HanZhang 

Key concepts: Beauty, Heaven, Ideal (ethics), Zhàng, Personality, Aesthetics, Similarity (geometry), Philosophy

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