Modern Interpretation on the Aesthetic Connotation of Chuang Tzu's Natural and Ideal Personality
Chuang Tzu describes many ideal personality images,all of which take maintaining an individual's authenticity and pursuing inner spiritual freedom as their highest life ideal.It was mainly reflected in three groups Chuang Tzu described:the ugly man,the craftsman and the divine man,and the sage and the supreme man.They fully embody the construction of Chuang Tzu's ideal per-sonality and its three aesthetic implications and life realm:the beauty of the true ugliness of the deformed body and its pursuit of follow-ing destiny,the beauty of the play of the way and its peace of life,the beauty of the spirit of the way and its realm of freedom.They all point to the freedom of the individual life spirit and take it as the inner quality of the ideal personality.All three of them jointly present the aesthetic connotation of Chuang Tzu's personality of"taking the natural as the beauty".