The Preliminary Recognition and Distribution of "Guimao School System" and Aesthetics Course in China

Chinese people's self consciousness of aesthetics and the design of aesthetics occured almost at the same time.The Chinese term of aesthetics was advanced by missionary Alfonse Vagoni in the transition of Ming and Qing Dynasties,but its implication was similar to conscience.In 1875the German missionary Ernst Faber used a concept of aestheticsin real sense,but it was suspened by history,which did not lead to efficacy of self consciousness in aesthetics course.Twenty years later,in 1897,the term aesthetics was put forward by Liang Qichao in a translated book from Japanese,but as a real modern subject,aesthetics is confirmed with the requirements of modern education.It took about 10 years for Chinese modern aesthetics education to develop,which underwent two phases,first represented by College in Guimao School System,existing as an assistant course in architecture courses,which was not quite scientific and reasonable,and the second represented by Wang Guowei's Post Reported College Constitution of Liberal Arts,existing as an independent and scientific and reasonable planning.However,aesthetic went beyond design and transformed into a universal education event only afterwards.