Chinese aesthetes, influenced by western aesthetics, traditional classifies the forms of beauty into elegance, loftiness (or majesticity), tragedy, comedy, farce, and humor.

• 关于美的形态分类,我国美学界由于受西方美学界的影响,一般分为优美、崇高(或壮美)、悲剧(或悲)、喜剧(或喜)、滑稽、幽默等。