Statium | Basic Aesthetics is the prerequisite and foundation of a beautiful life

Author: Professor of Humanities and Science and Civilization Research Center of Tian Song Southern University of Science and Technology

Basic beauty is the prerequisite and foundation of a better life, which is almost a repeated synonymous. Without basic aesthetics, there is no ability to distinguish beauty and ugliness. How can we live a beautiful and good life?

The heart of beauty has nothing to do with wealth

It is a good thing to say without lift the bar, at least it can ensure that food and clothing worry -free. But if there is no basic beauty, without appreciation and identification ability of beauty, it may not be able to live a beautiful life. On the contrary, because of money and particularly rich, you can live an ugly and particularly ugly life. In recent years, iconic buildings and street sculptures of some cities have become ugly and burst into jokes. From time to time, some of the iconic facilities of large companies have become hot spots. There are many reasons, but one thing is common: rich and lack of basic aesthetics.

Love beauty is human instinct and has nothing to do with wealth. Twenty years ago, I conducted a field survey in northwestern Yunnan and went to many remote villages. What made me remember is that many ordinary farmhouses are planted with flowers and plants -the walls of the house have been peeled off, but the yard is planted with pure ornamental flowers. Many years ago, I wrote "How many annual salary to be able to sing every day", which is said to be Yunnan West Union Yizhai, with a percentage of 600 yuan in annual. Dancing, singing and dancing are daily life. Their life may be poverty, but there is still a pursuit of beauty, and there is still beauty in life.

In recent years, there have been many paragraphs about the Northeast dialect. One of them is that the Northeast dialect is super contagious. As long as there is a Northeast in the university dormitory, it will bring the Northeast taste until graduation. My childhood spent in rural areas in the northeast. At first, there was no electric light in the village, which was very backward. However, the villagers are particularly particular about speaking. They come to Fu Bixing, especially when they are rhyme, and they like to drag a smooth way. Joying each other is particularly good at Li Xuan's hate. The two things that are far from each other are linked just because of the same or similar pronunciation, and the villagers are happy. In a tall way, it should be said that the pursuit of language art is part of the daily life of the Northeast farmers. With such a huge mass foundation, it is natural to appear a large number of "Zhao Benshan" in the northeast. This may partially explain the appeal of the Northeast dialect.

Aesthetics is transcendence of rationality

At that time, Mr. Cai Yuanpei advocated the use of aesthetic education instead of religion. Now there are many schools that advocate aesthetic education, and the share of beauty in life should not be low. But how to do aesthetic education and how to cultivate beauty?

I often hear someone saying that it is a taste to drink. From the perspective of bystanders, they can be described like this, their taste cannot distinguish the various tastes of various tea. Of course, they can rationally understand the knowledge about tea, or distinguish between black tea, green tea, brick tea, tea, or to know that there are West Lake Longjing and Liu'an melon slices from the appearance, but they have no feeling for tea, and they are also them, and they are also. Unable to appreciate tea.

Aesthetics is also such a sense that transcends rationality. A person knows a lot of knowledge about beauty and will answer questions, but may not have a subtle beauty.

Still tea. If you want to enjoy the goodness of tea, you must understand the basic knowledge of tea, but the most important thing is to have a basic taste, which can distinguish different taste -basic taste, and the prerequisite and foundation of enjoying good tea. With the basic taste and the willingness to enjoy tea, of course, what you have to do next is to continue to taste, constantly taste, taste different tea, distinguish them with taste, and feel their different tastes. After a long time, the taste is becoming more sensitive, and the taste and hobby of tea are more sensitive.

I think of the cultivation of beauty. To have basic aesthetics, to enjoy beauty, and then constantly exposure to beauty. However, where is beauty?

You can go to the art museum to see the Chinese painting and ancient paintings of ancient paintings. If you go often, you often look at various paintings; you can go to the concert hall to listen to the piano wooden piano and Hengqin harp, often go, often listen, you will be familiar with all kinds of music, you will be familiar with all kinds of music ... Of course, in the digital era, it is not necessary to go to the art hall of the art museum from time to time, and it will be available on the Internet. However, I suddenly realized that it didn't seem to be the basic aesthetics I said in this way. If so, it may be a high -level beauty, or it is more likely to be artistic. I have seen the children who have been forced by my parents to practice the piano. It sounds good, but the child's face is bitter, and it doesn't seem to feel beautiful.

Without basic aesthetics, how to go to the Art Hall of the Art Museum and how to go online, you can't get high -level beauty. Just as there is no basic taste, it is a taste to drink tea.

Liberal science is a small path to save basic aesthetics

Aesthetics is not a mysterious thing, nor is it a profound thing. It was originally part of daily life. It is a human being inherently instinct. Every life is like a natural taste. Aesthetics, and in the process of growth, the ears of beauty, rising and high, naturally developed a high -level beauty.

I remembered the northeast rural areas when I was a kid. The adobe house was beautiful, the fence was beautiful, the fields were beautiful, and the sky was beautiful. The wooden tables and chairs at home, in retrospect, feel that it is beautiful. I do n’t read many books and my uncle, but they are clever, they will use the tattoo wicker to make baskets, as if they are born, they can make good -looking shapes and patterns. In the villages I have ever been in the "fields", Mu Leng Room, Earth Pharmaceuticals, and Bamboo Forest also have their own beauty. These beauty are local, and they are with the local culture and environment, and they are everywhere. The city's car is difficult to describe with beauty. There are also many words of righteousness, such as majestic, spectacular, high -tech ... As for the sound on the road, it is noise. Some of the houses in large cities will have modern designed beauty, and some will have modern design ugly. People are more concerned about their practical functions. The first place to live in the top floor, facing the Asian Mountain from a distance, has no obstacles at 180 degrees. I like to stand on the balcony to see the far mountains and clouds. The house I rent now is much worse. There is a high -rise building in front of me. Although the distance is not very close, if I am on the balcony, I prefer to look at the gardens in the community under my feet and watch a large green crown.

The children in the city are growing up in such an environment. Looking at it, there are less beautiful artificial buildings, streets, and cement pier everywhere; looking around, the living space is full of artificial materials and the sound of artificial materials. This is the original visual and hearing experience of infants and young children. At the stage of infants and young children, the aesthetics of people lack basic stimuli and lack of room for growth, and gradually shrink. Just as many children have lost their exercise instincts -exercise is no longer happy, but to do my homework, because the movement pleasure in the process of growth has not developed.

Professor Liu Huajie of Peking University said that his colleague Professor Peng Feng put forward a concept called nature. Literally, everything in nature is beautiful. I think this is a proper summary.

Naturally, the United States. Flowers and plants are beautiful. Just pull a grass casually, as long as you have basic aesthetics, you can feel its appearance, color, material, and structure. Even a small flower has a delicate structure and wonderful color.

I can't help but talk about the language again. Children are born to love nature, which is the collective unconsciousness of human beings. When I was young, I could see an hour when I was busy watching the ants. But now, parents and kindergarten teachers always strive to separate children from nature -unsanitary and unsafe. Therefore, children generally suffer from "natural lack of syndrome". This is the concept of American children's educator Richard Lov. It is said that children's failure to fully contact in the growth stage will naturally cause many problems, such as easy to allergies, autism, asthma ... I think, it will still be able As a result of the loss of basic aesthetics.

Living in the city, surrounding the reinforced concrete, engaged in museum activities is a very easy to achieve temporary escape artificial environment, although our urban greening is also highly controlled by people.

I once said that literature is a path for humans to save self -souls. Now I have to add a sentence that is a path for humans to save the basic beauty of themselves.

Source | Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Jianguo

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