A Reprobe into Aesthetic Thoughts of Bamboo Slip Work Sex Derived from Life by GUO Dian

The bamboo slip work Sex Derived from Life by GUO Dian holds that feeling is derived from the stimulation of sex which is connate. This provides a philosophical basis of feeling nature. If feeling is not constrained, it will bring disasters to people. And the works on this basis are not in accordance with rites. Therefore, the work requires the artists constrain their feeling with rites. Further, the work holds that the stimulation with different things will produce different feelings. Accordingly, people in different places, times and environments have different aesthetic flavors since the aesthetic activities need the feeling’s driving and the feeling accompanies aesthetic activities all the time.