Aesthetic Resonance and Its Contemporary Significance: A Study of the Preface to the Hua Shan Painting Atlas

The statement “My heart takes my inner self as its master, my inner self guides my eyes, and my eyes learn from Mount Hua thus guiding the depiction of the landscape in my painting,” from The Prefaces of the Painting Atlas of Mount Hua, is often considered a maxim for imitating nature. This summary of painting theory is based on the aesthetic sensation thought in The Prefaces of the Painting Atlas of Mount Hua. Wang Lv uses the generative principle of constancy and change as the philosophical foundation of aesthetic sensation, then he analyzes and summarizes the process of aesthetic sensation through the integration of form and meaning. Wang Lv’s refinement and advancement of traditional Chinese aesthetic sensation thought has certain guiding significance for contemporary Chinese painting creation.