Ding Maoyuan, Tan Xiao
Liberal Arts College, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China.
Institute of Educational Sciences, Hubei University of Education, Wuhan, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 Apr 17;16:1547607. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1547607. eCollection 2025.
In Chinese thought, the concept of the "sublime" is closely intertwined with "beauty," the two concepts merging to form a sublime beauty that seeks the continuous development of universal life amid change. This paper explores the multifaceted relationship between the Chinese artistic mind and sublime beauty through three dimensions of the research model: potential, processes, and goals. In terms of potential, Chinese artistic thought places full trust in the inherent potential of an individual's ideal humanity, emphasizes the awakening of the sublime beauty within each person through specific art forms, and cultivates different perspectives to understand the connection between the mind and the sublime beauty of our world. In terms of process, Chinese artistic thought is characterized by the focused sincerity of the creative mindset; creative thinking that balances the "degree" of rational expression of emotions and the "" cultivated through daily spiritual practice; and the cognition of the sublime, which combines the gradual enlightenment gained from daily experiences of embodied cognition with the sudden enlightenment triggered by creative talent. In terms of artistic goals, ideal humanity in pursuit of sublime beauty is divided into three states: the "self state" that manifests the style of the individual subject, the "no-self state" that transcends the limitations of the self, and the "empty state" that surpasses even the cognitive notion of "transcending the self." The threefold relationship between ideal humanity and sublime beauty in Chinese art can provide contemporary psychology with research model and unique perspectives on being aware of one's self-potential, understanding their emotions and other aspects of the mind, and constructing multiple value goals.
在中国思想中，“崇高”的概念与“美”紧密相连，这两个概念相互融合，形成了一种崇高之美，即在变化中追求普遍生命的持续发展。本文通过研究模型的三个维度，探讨中国艺术思维与崇高之美之间的多方面关系：潜能、过程和目标。在潜能方面，中国艺术思想充分信任个体理想人性的内在潜能，强调通过特定艺术形式唤醒每个人内心的崇高之美，并培养不同视角来理解心灵与我们世界的崇高之美之间的联系。在过程方面，中国艺术思想的特点是创作心态专注真诚；创造性思维平衡情感理性表达的“度”以及通过日常精神修行培养的“度”；对崇高的认知，将从具身认知的日常经验中获得的渐进式启迪与创作天赋引发的顿悟相结合。在艺术目标方面，追求崇高之美的理想人性分为三种状态：体现个体主体风格的“自我状态”、超越自我局限的“无我状态”以及超越甚至“超越自我”这一认知概念的“空状态”。中国艺术中理想人性与崇高之美之间的三重关系可为当代心理学提供研究模型以及关于认识自我潜能、理解自身情感和心灵其他方面以及构建多重价值目标的独特视角。
