Record of Music,a classic in traditional Chinese art theories,has established an aesthetic model of"Wu gan",which offers a unique and important perspective for how feelings are sparked by things and artistic creations come into being thereafter.Being re-examined in the context of Peircean semiotics,such a model reveals the mechanism of feeling and meaning generation of artistic semiosis,and could,therefore,provide an alternative interpretation of the interpretative semiotics initiated by Charles S.Peirce.