Zhuangzi's aesthetic theory and aesthetic education principle are naturalism. He advocated taking heaven and earth as "school" and "classroom", so-called "the field of Dongting", so there is "the beauty of the original heaven and earth, reaching the principle of everything"
? Zhuangzi advocates returning to nature, and simplicity is a major feature of natural beauty. Simplicity refers to the natural state of things, without ornamentation, sculpture or other artificial transformation!
In Zhuangzi, truth, goodness and beauty are unified through simplicity.
? Isn't the child a living representative of truth, goodness and beauty? Because they are unpretentious!
What is most commendable is that Zhuangzi believes that aesthetic education must take nature as a teacher. Beauty exists in nature, and the principle of nature is also the principle of beauty. Therefore, people's aesthetic consciousness and sense of beauty can not be obtained from civilized society, but can only be perceived from nature.
People feel the beauty of elegance, the freedom of pleasure and self-growth from nature. In the process of understanding, appreciating and imitating nature, people unconsciously cultivate the natural temperament of freedom, purity and simplicity, cultivate the moral quality of indifference and inaction, improve the aesthetic ability of law, and purify and enhance their spiritual world.
Knowing, appreciating, understanding and feeling the beauty of nature is the most important way of education in Zhuangzi, especially moral education and aesthetic education.