中國傳統文人的審美生活方式，係秉持自得其樂與自求超脫等原則，設法自世俗社會生活退離之後，所經營出的一種不受社會格局影響之個人生活世界。本文第一部分擬探討傳統文人如何藉由審美行動作為人我心靈溝通之中介機制，建構出審美社會形式，俾以化解孤寂感之威脅；同時又能不落入世俗社會連帶關係的窠臼？第二部分則擬說明傳統文人如何將個人審美場域與社會生活安排在一個互不侵犯的基礎上，使其審美生活方式既體現一種「內在超越」的精神、且又能與社會秩序之間維持一個和諧並存的關係？

The aesthetic life-form of the traditional Chinese literati, which based on the principles of self-complacency and self­transcendence, has tried to withdraw from the secular-social life. Accordingly, it has constructed a personal life-world which does not interfered by social framework. The first part of this essay focuses on the topic that, how do the traditional Chinese literati regard aesthetic action as the mediation of inter-personal communication of mind in order to construct the aesthetic-social form, which, on the one hand, helps to overcome the threat of loneliness, on the other hand, escapes the prison of secular-social solidarity? The second part concerns the topic that, how do the traditional Chinese literati arrange the individual aesthetic field, as well as the social life, to place side by side on a peaceful foundation, which can help the aesthetic life-form to fulfill the idea of inter-transcendence and keep a harmonious relationship with social order?