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GONG Lijuan
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2026.02.007
Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, China
Traditional aesthetics defines beauty as the outcome of human perceptual cognition. In contrast, contemporary Chinese Meishengology holds that beauty is a sensible reality, and that the world and humanity possess the essential law and ultimate purpose of evolving toward beauty. Professor Yuan Dingsheng, a contemporary Chinese scholar, established contemporary Meishengology through his observations of heaven, earth, and history, as well as his in-depth theoretical research in ecological aesthetics. Rooted in ancient Chinese philosophical thought, Meishengology realizes the sublimation from the noumenon of “Shengsheng” (eternal engendering)—based on Dao and Qi—to the noumenon of “Meisheng” (beauty-generation). It embodies the contemporary inquiry of Meisheng (beauty-generation) theory into metaphysics. Meishengology investigates how beauty emerges, generates, and grows within the Meisheng-field (beauty-generation field). It clarifies the Meisheng (beauty-generation) essence of the world and humanity as a transcendent existence characterized by greenness, vitality, rhythmic profundity, and endurance. It explores the law, purpose, and value of the world and humanity evolving toward beauty, and outlines the cosmic Meisheng (beauty-generation) schema in which the Dao of holistic generation circulates throughout the world to form the Meisheng-field (beauty-generation field). Meishengology has constructed an independent knowledge system with Chinese indigenous characteristics and achieved a systematic upgrade of ecological aesthetics theory. Its logical speculation and essential connotation possess a global character. Chinese Meishengology will eventually converge with world aesthetics, and jointly build a global community of beauty-generation and a civilization of beauty-generation.
Meisheng (beauty-generation), Meishengology (beauty-generation studies), Meisheng-field (beauty-generation field), green ascending & rhythmic growth
GONG Lijuan. (2026). The Theoretical Construction, Core Characteristics and Global Significance of Contemporary Chinese Meishengology. Philosophy Study, Mar.-Apr. 2026, Vol. 16, No. 2, 166-171.
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