美学在中国是一个年轻的学科,而在这个学科的建立中又出现了多种学派。蔡仪同志虽有《新艺术论》、《论现实主义》、《中国新文学史讲话》及他主编的《文学概论》等著述,但他却把更多的精力、目光集中在美学新体系的建立上,即把美学建立在唯物主义的基础上。40年代后期,他的《新美学》问世,由于其体系新,立即引起了思想战线上的重视。有人撰文评论《新美 Aesthetics is a young discipline in China, and there are many schools of thought in the establishment of this discipline. Although there are such works as “Art Nouveau”, “On Realism”, “History of New Chinese Literature” and “Introduction to Literature”, which he edited, Comrade Cai Yi focuses more attention on the new system of aesthetics On the establishment, that is, the establishment of aesthetics on the basis of materialism. In the late 1940s, his “new aesthetics” came out, because of its new system, immediately aroused the attention on the ideological front. Someone commented on the "new beauty