Abstract: As viewed from its modern appearing or its being, the aesthetics of art and literature can also be regarded as the modernity event of Chinese aesthetics. On the one hand, artistic and literary aesthetics has turned the regular discipline from the latent one with modernity encountering china; On the other hand, the existence of artistic and literary aesthetics is a cutural event in modernity context. Uuderstanding and explaining the modernity of artistic and literary aesthetics is the important problem related with its existence and development.