The Rationalization and Sentimentalization of the Tradition of Wu-Shamanism-Historiography—On the Creation and Construction of the Autonomous Knowledge System of Chinese Aesthetics

The construction of the autonomous knowledge system of Chinese aesthetics requires both rooting in the local tradition and going global. The tradition of Wu-Shamanism-Historiography formed between ancient-modern and China-West tension is such a unique local creation, which includes both the rational side and the sentimental side. Because The tradition of Wu-Shamanism-Historiography in China naturally has one body and two sides of sensibility and rationality, and the development from Wu-Shamanism to Historiography depends more on the rationality based on human practice and cannot be separated from sensibility of Chinese people. The reason why the tradition of Wu-Shamanism-Historiography is fundamental to Chinese aesthetics is precisely because, originating from Wu- Shamanism-Historiography, Chinese aesthetics is an aesthetics of unity of heaven and man, thus becoming the aesthetics of one-worldness; Chinese aesthetics is an aesthetics of unity of object and self, thus becoming an aesthetics of subjectivity-objectivity-unify; Chinese aesthetics is an aesthetics of unity of reason and emotion, thus becoming an aesthetics of one-mind-heart; Chinese aesthetics is an aesthetics that combines sensation and action, thus becoming the aesthetics of one-life-world.