The Inherent Tension of Materiality and Morality-On the Chrysanthemum Aesthetics in the Song Dynasty
The core achievement of chrysanthemum aesthetics in the Song Dynasty is to promote the ancient Chinese flower aesthetics to a stage of refinement.The categories of chrysanthemum cultivation and appreciation are unprecedentedly rich in this stage,and a description and evaluation system of chrysanthemum aesthetic characteristics and values is formed.The chrysanthemum aesthetics of the Song Dynasty are centred on the color,fragrance and shape of chrysanthemums,with color as the core.Its chrysanthemum appreciation focuses on the intrinsic biological properties of chrysanthemums,that is,flowers that defy the cold during the frosty season.Taking chrysanthemum as a model,people in the Song Dynasty refined a perfect flower aesthetic judgment system,which mainly includes the basic judgment on whether it has aesthetic value,the quantitative hierarchical judgment on the level of aesthetic value of a particular object in the vertical expansion,the stylistic judgment on the characteristics of a particular object in the horizontal expansion,and the aesthetic ideal judgment on what is the highest flower beauty.Chrysanthemum aesthetic characteristics in the Song dynasty are composed of two elements,one is identified by the"materiality",taking the chrysanthemum internal and external biological characteristics as the core of the cognitive objective path,and the other is identified by the"morality",endowing chrysanthemums with humanistic values as the subjective path in chrysanthemum appreciation.These two constitute the basic framework of chrysanthemum aesthetics in the Song Dynasty,and there is a huge internal tension.These two constitute the basic framework of Song chrysanthemum aesthetics,and the inner tension is significant.The former is the temporary landscape of chrysanthemum aesthetics in the Song Dynasty,while the latter is the mainstream aesthetic tradition of ancient chrysanthemum appreciation.Based on the concept of contemporary environmental aesthetics,the former is the natural aesthetic way of respecting the characteristics of the appreciated object and treating the target objectively,which is therefore appropriate,while the latter belongs to the inappropriate natural aesthetic way of departing from the object's physical nature and humanizing the natural object.
chrysanthemum aesthetics in the Song Dynastyrefinementchrysanthemum genealogycognitive chrysanthemum appreciationanalogizing morality with chrysanthemum
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