The Concept of the “Flashing Ideal World”: The Experience of Ancient China for Today
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https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2025/27/5Keywords:
concept, “flashing ideal world”, experience, ancient China, in the past and today.Abstract
The origins of dé-coincidence in traditional Chinese architecture and art lie in the specific worldview of the Chinese, which was formed over thousands of years under the influence of local beliefs – Taoism and Confucianism, and borrowed Buddhism. It is significant that in China, as well as in Japan, these three teachings did not oppose each other, but formed a specific religious syncretism, since they were all built on a similar basis – the belief in the variability of phenomena in the universe, nature as a model of perfection, as well as the absence of the image of the Creator, present in the monotheistic religions of Christianity and Islam.
The essence of dé-coincidence in traditional Chinese and Japanese art is to endow the hidden essence of the phenomenon with the properties of ideal beauty. Therefore, this hidden essence can only be felt "from heart to heart", with the heart, not with the mind. Thus, the sacredness of the act of the artist's creativity lies in the "moment" of merging of the artist with nature and transferring through artistic means how the energy of nature turns into the energy of creativity and from it into the energy of a work of art.
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