Abstract: The ancient Chinese literati's aesthetic experience of spring evolves from shape,color to sound,and "listening to spring" has increasingly become a way of leisure experience in daily life.Listening is related to the soul.In the emotional projection and constant chanting of the ancient literati,"listening to spring" has been transformed into an aesthetic image rich in leisure,and two aesthetic paradigms have been formed:"listening to spring at night" and "listening to spring across objects"."Listening to spring" spreads from poetry to painting and gardens and constantly flows back and forth in art space,completing the aesthetic construction of poetic landscape and becoming the aesthetic symbol of literati's pursuit of leisure and poetic life.The formation of the image of "listening to spring" and its leisure aesthetic connotation not only show the literati's auditory aesthetic taste,but also enrich the Chinese traditional auditory aesthetic culture.

Key words: listening to spring, aesthetic image, leisure implication, painting, garden