What is humor?

The word "humor" first appeared in China Quyuan's Nine Chapters of Huai Sha: "Warm and embarrassed.

Kong Jing is very humorous. However, humor here means silence. The word "humor" used as an aesthetic category now refers to an emotion that makes people laugh and have endless aftertaste.

Laughter is the external feature of humor, and it is not humor without laughter; But laughter is not the essential feature of humor.

Because there are many kinds of laughter. From the form of laughter, there are satisfied smiles, embarrassed smiles and knowing smiles. ...

From the mechanism of laughter, there are physiological laughter, social laughter, psychological laughter and so on. Only "knowing smile",

Psychological laughter is related to the essence of humor. The so-called "knowing smile" is to make people laugh.

Know something and get some enlightenment.

For example, Hitler visited a mental hospital. He asked the patient if he knew who he was, the patient.

The children shook their heads. So Hitler announced loudly: "I am Adolf Hitler, your leader!"

My strength can be compared with God! "The patients looked at him sympathetically, and one of them patted Xi.

Teller's shoulder said, "Yes, yes, you were like this when we first came!" " "

This kind of humor makes people laugh and understand a truth: the arrogant war madman Hitler.

Man is actually a deranged madman, and his demise is a historical necessity.

Lin Yutang thinks that "humor is between banter and seriousness", while Hasegawa, a native of * * *, calls humor "society".

Laugh. " The "seriousness" and "society" here mean that humor contains a certain society.

Rong is an evaluation of life with a special cognitive attitude ("joking") and expressive attitude ("laughing").

Therefore, the smile caused by a fashionable girl falling on the watermelon skin is not a humorous smile; one

The laugh that a guy in Panama pants caused when he squatted down was not a humorous laugh.