Abstract: The merits and demerits of Chinese aesthetics research history can be found from its cognitive logic.The research in the past 30 years shows that,the ideological cognitive mode in the 1980s and 90s once laid a high academic foundation for Chinese aesthetics research.As the development of the research,this cognitive logic gradually shows its defects of single approach.After 2000,cultural cognitive logic has become a brand new approach to Chinese aesthetics research.With its plural perspectives,profound ideas and metaphor system,this approach has indicated the academic nature of “talking about ourselves” in the future of Chinese aesthetics research,and forecasted a bright prospects for the exchange of cultural interpretations with international aesthetics in deep level. 

Key words:  , Chinese Aesthetics History Research, cognitive logic, metaphor system