The Song Dynasty is an era of unprecedented prosperity and development of China culture, and the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty has made great progress on the basis of fully integrating the predecessors. The aesthetics of the Book of Songs, Taoism, pre-Qin Confucianism, Confucian classics, metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and Zen in Sui and Tang Dynasties were all reconstructed and integrated during this period, and China's classical aesthetics reached a new height.

In the process of integration, the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty was eclectic, absorbed various academic ideas with great inclusiveness, and formed its own unique aesthetics of "Song people's interest".

Based on Confucianism, this kind of aesthetics critically absorbed the aesthetic thoughts of Zen and Taoism, obtained the aesthetic resources needed by the times, and created the glory of the new era. Aesthetics in the Song Dynasty has established its own monument in the history of aesthetics in China, which has a unique position as a link between the past and the future.

Characteristics of aesthetic history in Song Dynasty;

Aesthetics in Song Dynasty has many rich forms and profound connotations. It is closely related to the social and cultural characteristics of the Song Dynasty and has distinct rheology. The ups and downs of aesthetic thought make it full of color sense.

Aesthetics in the Song Dynasty was born in a broad cultural background and deep cultural soil, full of rich cultural atmosphere and book fragrance, and became the standard paradigm of China's aesthetics, which better reflected the characteristics of erudite aesthetics and better met the aesthetic needs of life and mood.