What is a joke? What is a joke?

The word "humor" first appeared in China Quyuan's "Nine Chapters of Huai Sha": "Gentle and embarrassed, Kong Jing is 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 humor. 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 smiles, social smiles, psychological smiles and so on. Only "knowing smile" and "psychological smile" are related to the nature of humor. The so-called "knowing smile" means doing it. Get some inspiration. For example, Hitler visited a mental hospital. He asked the patients if they knew who he was, and they all 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 Hitler on the shoulder and 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 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 "social laughter". "Serious" and "social" here mean that humor contains certain social content and is based on a special attitude. The smile caused by a guy in Panama pants when he squatted down is not humorous.