중국 고전 미학의 원류, 선진미학 = The Foundation of the Pre-Qin Chinese Classical Aesthetics

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The pre-Qin period is one when the foundations of Chinese classical aesthetic thoughts were laid. The period can be divided into three eras: the prehistoric, where there were few notable written resources, Chunqiu ("Spring and Autumn"), and Zhanguo ("Warring States").
Discourses on the beautiful were highly enriched as people realized that the beautiful doesn't always go hand in hand with the good, or individual and/or communal utility. Before Gongzi, the founder of the first philosophical 'school' proper, people considered the beautiful as harmful to the good. It is Gongzi who first suggested that the form and the content be equally blended in order that one can be a man of virtue. He also first acknowledged that the poems of Shijing can serve to arouse emotions, contemplate, associate and resent. Concerning music, Gongzi preferred the old yayue to the new music.
During the Warring States, three prominent schools competed: the Confucian (Mengzi and Xunzi), the Daoist (Laozi and Zhuangzi), and the Moist (Mozi), and the . The Confucianists acknowledged that the rites and music can reveal the virtue of the ruling class, while the Daoists denounced all the decorations as spoiling men's naive nature, except Dao or Qi. Mozi contradicted to the Confucian rites and music, for they will impoverish the people as well as the country.
On the center of the aesthetic thoughts of pre-Qin China, there was always the human being, whether individual or social. Among diverse schools from this period, the Confucian school mostly affected the official stances of the following dynasties, while the Daoist aesthetics prevailed in private lives of the Chinese people.