Comparing Gentlemans Virtue: the Aesthetics of Nature in the Perspective of Pre-Qin Confucianism Personality Aesthetics

Abstract

The "unity of heaven and man" is the basic spirit of Chinese philosophy and aesthetics, which is rooted in the Chinese cosmology of
the unity of space-time and life. The interaction between the ideal of man and nature together and the Confucian character aesthetics spirit of
"comparing gentlemans virtue and emphasizing education" has given birth to the pre-Qin Confucian "comparing gentlemans virtue" natural
aesthetics. As the representative figures of pre-Qin Confucianism, Kong, Meng and Xun, their personality aesthetics thought is essentially
consistent with the spirit of "Junzi", and the concept of "comparing gentlemans virtue" derived from it is the result of the change of the preQin Confucian natural aesthetics in its personality aesthetics vision. The natural aesthetics of "comparing gentlemans virtue" is permeated
with the philosophical wisdom of the Chinese forefathers to be close to nature and to be in harmony with things, and at the same time, it is
also counteracted by the practice of smelting the ideal personality, so that the concept of " comparing gentlemans virtue" contains a natural
aesthetic orientation and an aesthetic realm of life that is very much characterized by Chinese characteristics.