Fundamentally speaking, both style and spirit should return to people themselves and be summarized and deduced from the two most important dimensions of meaning origin and spiritual attribution. Broadly speaking, both of them are deposited in the aesthetic consciousness system of the Tang Dynasty, thus mapping out a relatively systematic and stable aesthetic concept, aesthetic spirit and even aesthetic ideal under an appropriate logical framework. From the form of expression, the aesthetic consciousness of the Tang Dynasty is all embodied in the corresponding aesthetic practice, theory and related works of literature and art, and also contained in the traditional philosophy, ethics, politics and poetic life. From the important dimension of the birth significance of aesthetic culture, it can be said that it vividly corresponds to the essential connotation of China's aesthetics, pays attention to the fine tradition of life value relationship in content, and advocates a non-simple and objective aesthetic experience mode in form. Studying the aesthetic culture or aesthetics in Tang Dynasty around aesthetic consciousness is based on the natural soil such as the relationship origin of China culture and the essence of life value, and it is also a new thinking on how to study the traditional aesthetic culture in China.
First, the poetic era.
Throughout history, the Tang Dynasty was undoubtedly an era full of poetic rhyme, which even surpassed any previous era to a great extent. This is not only because Tang poetry is listed as an unattainable peak in the history of China's poetry, but also because the aesthetic culture of the Tang Dynasty, under the guidance of the specific poetic spirit at that time, formed a prosperous pattern linking the past with the future. Why does this poetic spirit come into being? This is fully reflected in the Tang people's developmental inheritance of traditional culture and the breadth and depth of artistic creation. They not only started creative interpretation based on the thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, but also condensed various systematic and outstanding aesthetic theories. Even in the relatively declining late Tang Dynasty, the typical concepts such as aesthetic evaluation of poetry summarized in Twenty-four Poems almost became. From the microscopic point of view, the poems and songs of the Tang Dynasty can no longer be simply defined as a pure art form or a medium of expression, but an excellent field to carry the so-called poetic spirit; From a macro perspective, various literary and artistic activities and related theories in the Tang Dynasty have also evolved into a poetry creation method that can particularly highlight the original meaning. This aesthetic idea of poetic creation guiding literary and artistic creation aims to present a life world full of commerce and flying like a kite. This poetic nature is directly related to the people in this specific historical period of the Tang Dynasty, showing the vivid existence since the beginning of life. The reason why the aesthetic culture in Tang Dynasty has the value of this origin of life is that it can not be completely analyzed only through the vertical concept of time, and more importantly, it should be considered in the sense that people break through the world. The existentialist philosopher Jaspers made a statement about "origin"