Aesthetic movement is a loosely organized anti-social movement that appeared in the field of British art and literature in the late19th century. It happened in the late Victorian era and lasted from 1868 to 190 1. Academics generally believe that the end of the aestheticism movement is marked by the arrest of Oscar Wilde.

Slogan: Art for Art's sake

Features: pursuing hints rather than statements, sensual enjoyment, wide application of symbolism, and pursuing the connection between things-that is, exploring the internal connection between words, colors and music.

Representative figures: Keats, Shelley, Gautier, Wilde, Biazli.

Representative: Oscar Wilde

Representative works: The drama Salome and the novel The Portrait of Durengeler (also made into a movie).

At present, the saying of "aestheticism" that often appears in many popular youth literature is actually not aestheticism literature in the traditional sense. But it also absorbs some characteristics of aestheticism, pays attention to the complexity of language, and uses various rhetorical devices to describe or analyze things or emotions in a delicate and complicated way. Many authors of "pure literature of youth" tend to be aesthetic and decadent, conveying decadent youth emotions with negative and morbid words, pretending to be or being labeled as "aesthetic literature" by readers. This kind of writing is more common in magazines such as Boys and Girls and Fireworks.