Research on Shang Dynasty Aesthetic Consciousness

Author: Zhu Zhirong
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This book primarily explores the aesthetic consciousness of the Shang Dynasty in China. The Shang Dynasty is a historically documented era in China, and its written characters and vessel forms are artworks of high aesthetic value, leaving behind vivid and rich records of aesthetic concepts. They undoubtedly play a pivotal role in the historical evolution of ancient Chinese aesthetic consciousness, particularly exerting a profound influence on the development of later aesthetic thought. During the writing of this book, the author was traveling between China and South Korea. Perhaps inspired by the sense of life's wandering, the author's observations of the Shang Dynasty's written characters, literature, bronze vessels, pottery, and jade artifacts are imbued with the turbulence of emotional life. The overwhelming historical grandeur and religious mystique of Shang culture are vividly revealed. In addition to oracle bone script, the author chose vessels as the entry point to explore the aesthetic spirit of that world, preliminarily establishing a relatively ideal critical paradigm for studying Shang civilization.