Abstract:The formation,development and evolution of Chinese aesthetics in the 20th century constitute a grand history of aesthetic development,forming a multi-level overall system including theoretical knowledge and disciplinary discourse,which had promoted Chinese aesthetics from classical form to modern form. However,the study of aesthetic history writing not only includes theoretical ontology research but also requires research on its research methods,research paradigms, overall structure, and logical thinking. It is necessary to deeply elucidate the different paradigms of aesthetic history writing , highlighting the structural,historical, and continuous characteristics of “meta history” research. As a result,the “History of Chinese Aesthetics in the 20th Century” presents a dual“ knowledge-based” and “ideological” writing paradigm,highlighting a diverse landscape in the research of aestheticians,theoretical categories,aesthetic issues ,aesthetic schools and debates,and aesthetic literature and historical materials. Based on the ontology of aesthetic theory,the knowledge-based writing paradigm emphasizes the connection,integrity and genealogy of knowledge within aesthetics, and highlights the logical correlation of different theories. Aesthetics is regarded as a kind of professional and scientific knowledge from the perspective of “internal research”,which demonstrates the academic independence of aesthetic research and aesthetic history writing. The paradigm of knowledge-based writing is mainly divided into three types:“writing with the aesthetic ideas and theories of specific aestheticians as the writing object”,“writing with aesthetic academic debates as the writing object”, and“writing with aesthetic history from the perspective of the relationship between ancient and modern aesthetics”. The ideological writing style regards aesthetics as an organic component of social culture,emphasizing the“symptomatic” research methods and ideological effects of aesthetics,effectively integrating “internal research” and “external research”of aesthetics,and achieving thematic research on the social background historical context changing mechanisms and cultural values of aesthetic development which had constructed an aesthetic history writing paradigm that emphasizes social historicity cultural connection and ideological integrity. The ideological approach highlights the characteristics of “modernity perspective”“thematic historical approach”,“ aesthetic ideal historical paradigm”,“relationship between aesthetics and politics” and“cross-cultural perspective ”in aesthetic history books and grasps the deeper ideological pulse of the era hidden behind aesthetic theory. At the same time,there are still some problems that need to be solved in the study and writing of aesthetic history. On the one hand,aesthetic issues such as “aesthetic literature”,“logical thinking”,and “spiritual extraction”summarize and sublimate the value of two writing paradigms of aesthetic history expanding the knowledge framework of aesthetic history research. On the other hand,it also provides necessary knowledge resources and research methods from a reflective perspective,seeking more space for breakthroughs in the writing of aesthetic history. This will not only help enrich the knowledge system of aesthetics,but also effectively construct the discourse system of Chinese aesthetics in the cultural context of the new era and spread the voice of Chinese aesthetics.