Abstract: When reviewing and defining the formation of taste category in China,we found that In the west,the change of taste from palate category into aesthetics category marked the founding of aesthetics discourse,while in China,though taste contained a sense of aesthetics appreciation long ago,it did not belong to taste category of modern aesthetics.Therefore,only after modern transformation can taste category in classical aesthetics become a category of modern aesthetics.The modern transition of taste category presented a special tensile force of modernity of Chinese aesthetics.Taste category raised the problem of deep structure and foundation transformation when classical Chinese aesthetics switched into modern aesthetics.After Liang Qichao and Zhu Guangqian,modern Chinese aesthetics,breaking away from the restriction of ideology,should have constructed its aesthetics theories with taste as one of its key categories to continue the path of modernity of Chinese aesthetics.

Key words: taste, aesthetics appreciation, aesthetics modernity, modern transition