Sense of Taste and Chinese Classic Aesthetics

Taste is a key word in Chinese classic aesthetics. It has some relation to the sense of in bite and sup, but also quite a lot different from it. Chinese classic aesthetic pays great attention to the essential implication. This implication is profound and subtle, sometimes even vague. It needs the personal experience of the subject. The word taste in Chinese classic aesthetics has been used to describe the aesthetic feelings. Chinese aesthetics based on the experience, different from the western aesthetics, which is based on epistemology. The beauty of the phenomenon is to be exceed in Chinese aesthetics and essential implication behind the phenomenon is more worthy to achieve. This is the ultimate beauty, as miao in Chinese aesthetics; it can not be explained by words for that it implies the infinite.