Abstract: There are evident differences between Chinese and western appreciation of “ugliness”,which can also be perceived through people’s behavior.Chinese emphasize the negotiation and assimilation between opposites;therefore they can accept and absorb “ugliness” with an open mind.While in western culture,people advocate beauty and stress the opposition and conflicts between beauty and ugliness,so any ugly things is always repellent.China had been influenced by Confucianism,so Chinese recognition/understanding of “ugliness” is partial to moral aspect.By contrast,the west culture is drenched by the philosophy of “division between object and subject”,thus their understanding of “ugliness” favors the form of it.During the creation of art,Chinese take ugliness as a kind of beauty,while westerners tend to turn ugliness to beauty.

Key words: ancient aesthetic, ugliness, appreciation of &ldquo, ugliness&rdquo