This is an article about Zhao Song- guang's thinking of musical aesthetics and his contribution to establishment and development of the subject of musical aesthetics in China.
China's traditional culture is regarded as the culture of combining Confucian with Taoism, on the basis of which China's musical aesthetic thoughts took shape.
This paper,following the theory of knowledge and based on the musical aesthetic thoughts in Music without Sorrow and Joy and Huai Nan Zi,analyzes the acceptance differences of aesthetic subject in music appreciation.
The paper discusses the influence of the Enlightenment thought on music aesthetics theory from perspective of the relation of Rousseau's music aesthetics thought and comic opera from,we can see 18th century music aesthetics thought's culture value and the effect on music practice.