On Wang Guowei’s Aesthetic Ideas

Wang Guowei’s Comments on ‘Dream of Red Mansions’ laid a foundation in the aestheticism for the modern Chinese literature.He stressed that highlighting the value of literature itself,laid a foundation in the aesthetic self-discipline to the literature.His,stress on aesthetic self-discipline was actually to take care of freedom.He practiced the aestheticism by arts first and his life in the end.In the view of the aesthetic artist,art is factually the same thing as life.Wang Guowei’s aesthetic ideas are very important to the whole Chinese literature theory in the 20th Century.