ࡱ> 463%` bjbjNN .,,Y  <$.hE 2w" 0<\ \\ ~hT:Q <DD The Somatic Arts in China and their Conceptual Basis in Ritual Abstract Brian J. Bruya [bbruya@emich.edu] Eastern Michigan University Although the fine arts of China are traditionally linked to the Confucian literati, aesthetic theory associated with these arts is couched in a terminology often thought to stem from philosophical Daoism. In this paper, I demonstrate that the naturalness definitive of many Chinese fine arts has its theoretical genesis not in Daoism but in Confucianism. In historical accounts of Chinese art, the Six Arts (liu yi mQ݅), ritual propriety (li y), music (yue j), archery (she \), charioteering (yu _/), calligraphy (shu f), and calculation (shu xe)) of early China are usually noted only in passing. Even more rarely is it mentioned that a common feature among them is an important somatic element. I argue that this somatic element, which became crucial in later aesthetic development, especially in the brush arts of painting and calligraphy, was a core criterion in the judgment of successfully executed ritual propriety, which at its aesthetic apex is identified by its naturalness, or effortlessness (ziran 6q or wu wei !q2r). The bulk of the paper will be devoted to: 1) understanding the aesthetics of ritual propriety; 2) delineating the concept of naturalness in an aesthetic context; 3) delineating the category "somatic art" with respect to Chinese art; a>@ N |   H N w h!Uhhl_hSPR6] hhl_hSPRhhl_hSPR5\?gdSPR$a$gdSPRnd 4) extending that category to specific non-Chinese art forms. The conceptual gain will be both a better understanding of the fundamentals of Chinese aesthetics and a new method for understanding art more generally. ,1h/ =!"#$% H`H SPRNormal CJPJ_HaJmH nHsH tHDA@D Default Paragraph FontRi@R  Table Normal4 l4a (k@(No ListY?X[@0@0@0X00?X[X00X00000  8eD9e`A:e;eE=eB>eK?e}@eTAeFjjr{[ qz[ B *urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagscountry-region9 *urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagsplace=*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceName=*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceType 0   QV #$&')ABLOPQabtvwxyzw|}[hi[33[[$ZU, "F(Qk*D[H^byg /UL2m<]i$PMbTm|y  iL 0 > ^S Pe q q   / ~0 ,E zJ  &6 "h p `Caec'iv>{` Odm%&8X<SQW*nt!*/Okk+,:NwAcIsvyF#P i)7/r}!FU(MhcZD pt|p" q q!h!&"^P""<#V#$v%$pj$%"%4r%D&$J&N&O&S&/=B/,w/s1/1(312-282pQ2X2?3Q3FW3-494G4+e4%5(6,6s78/'8698 y8,s9:*:2:;U; g;%<<=^>'?#?@@f*@,@kAOA\A!wAFB;)CAWCfC3Dy!E JEGJE3QEEuE;FqF2 G]GmG,H}zH ISJIJW:J:J8KdMKtKzKL)Ly,L*CL6M MMdM!N3N$=NBNeNaOYpOP#PRP2PoPQ QFQ:QZnQRKRSPR`RqcIqg r 'rW-rG9rPr`rpirwss8t_ tStctu4uu>>uzKuAru<~uvvGwxt-x@xrxGyd!z|r+|0|}BA}F}O ~]~io~ *$M%&K5I b,;:*\Qeoc%eLkRfVt B`ZyLe&'p`=fpx.4J`oy!,PyQSjUii()U,z!2F RR WE*H P)GJN/`w[]#.(Ojkqp<<9+\bdt>xq D!'>q!Qf: 4y1_Q%7DvJdM|9FSHbkyT2-Di,i2K(\~-8s7d}ur8s;T"(2et VO4Hm%# &>(&z'h*o4C#py"C_^(s '1GpcKEG=Jfmq.2MwxU}lDTa:"T+!9eoq5 5>UPn D=]rjx~-!"FKebx~NuJ+0byti!+v,.8I:Vak c3Y^R} ENN}G4gj>2,TavHrQTZ^3ffVGae\"K&*PUf$8C')1-AdWf$lTPxY/CO?E a@26]dM'O0| 5,<3>7ձM~5t#4<P@q O,=_ug_v${1 ZM^U=35T:+oCQ{2;KItuA dSgB$0AJX=^2Q V8;FQX{ A+}$gdgowx*'B4H[TZ]s`jCp/LAd6~ 3,G@XXXX@}}Y@ @0@UnknownGz Times New Roman5Symbol3& z Arial;SimSun[SO"qhuѦuѦg g !24dVV 2qHX)?SPR2>The Somatic Arts in China and their Conceptual Basis in RitualblabadieblabadieOh+'0 ( <H h t @The Somatic Arts in China and their Conceptual Basis in Ritual blabadieNormal blabadie2Microsoft Office Word@@ w@ wg՜.+,0@ hp  Florida Atlantic University V' ?The Somatic Arts in China and their Conceptual Basis in Ritual Title  !"$%&'()*,-./0125Root Entry F2w7Data 1Table\WordDocument.SummaryInformation(#DocumentSummaryInformation8+CompObjq  FMicrosoft Office Word Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q