Confucianism entered the world and Taoism emerged. Confucianism talks about "worrying about the world first" and Taoism talks about "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains". Confucianism is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, while Taoist politics is insignificant and art is eternal. Confucianism pays attention to etiquette and respects the Tao of Confucius and Mencius. Taoism pays attention to self-cultivation ~ there is simple materialism

Confucianism and Taoism are complementary, which is an old and old thing in the study of the history of Chinese philosophy. topic, but from different angles and different aspects, we can continue to elicit new thinking from this ancient topic. From an internal, covert, and genetic sense, the complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism has a cultural connotation; and from an external, public, and semiotic sense, the complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism also has an aesthetic function. For quite some time, domestic scholars, based on the value orientation of Western realism affirmed by Marx and Engels, regarded Confucian aesthetics, which has the tradition of "Xing, Guan, Group, and Resentment" and advocates using art to intervene in reality, as Chinese classical music. The mainstream of art; and the Taoist thought of "exterminating articles, scattering five talents, and separating Zhu's eyes" and "blocking the blind ears" is regarded as the countercurrent of cultural nihilism and artistic liquidationism. In the recent period, as a reaction to vulgar sociology, mainland scholars have echoed each other with the academic circles in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In the Taoist aesthetics of "great skill is like clumsiness, great debate is like indifference" and "big sounds are loud, but elephants are invisible" In it, he discovered the freehand style and free realm that Western modern art dreams of, and believes that this represents the true spirit of Chinese art; in contrast, the Confucian set of poetry that "motivates emotions and stops at etiquette and justice" Teaching tradition, but it seems too narrow-minded because of its eagerness for quick success... It should be admitted that the above two views each have their own truths, but when put together, they are at odds with each other and conflict with each other. The key to the problem is that this either-or attitude can only see the one-sided rationality of Confucianism and Taoism, but cannot explain the dialectical relationship between the two "complementary" each other and their role in the history of Chinese aesthetics. overall function.