A Study on the Relationship between ‘Harmony’ and ‘Beauty’ in Aesthetic Objects in Aesthetic Thought before Confucius in China

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between harmony and beauty in the objects of aesthetics before Confucius in China in order to illuminate the prototype of modern harmonious beauty. Beauty can exist only in the unity of the diversity of things. This unification of diversity is called ‘harmony’. That is why