Zhu Guangqian's "Aesthetics": Leave some intuition in life

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Zhu Guangqian told such a story at the beginning of "Aesthetics":

Three people were walking halfway and encountered a pine tree.

What the carpenter perceives is just how much wood is worth for a certain purpose; what the botanist perceives is a tree with needle-shaped leaves, globular fruit, and evergreen all year round. Flowers and plants are shown; but only the painter does not care about anything. What he sees is a green and vigorous ancient tree.

The carpenter is thinking about how to use it to build houses, how to sell it, use it, and chop it; the botanist classifies it into a certain family and category, thinking about its relationship with other pine trees. Similarities and differences, thinking about how it lives so old; but only the painter is concentrating on admiring its green colors, its winding lines like dragons and snakes, and his high-spirited and unyielding spirit.

There is no doubt that carpenters and botanists start from their own needs and use a practical and scientific attitude to look at and consider this thousand-year-old pine. It is the painter who puts aside all With the desire and obsession, I focus on the ancient pine, and use the intuitive psychological activity method to appreciate the strong greenness of the ancient pine and the long time.

Only the painter's attitude of intuitively tasting a single image that is insulated from the world can be called aesthetic feeling.

“In the activities of doing something, people are slaves to the needs of the environment; in the activities of doing nothing, people are the masters of their own souls.”

Aesthetics is such an activity of “doing nothing”.

When the painter met an ancient pine, he forgot that his wife was waiting for firewood to cook rice at home, that pine trees are called flowering plants in plant textbooks, and that he forgot about the unfinished painting at home. He has turned a blind eye to the world outside the ancient pine. All his consciousness has been taken up by this ancient pine. This is an activity of "doing nothing but doing nothing" without seeking to achieve any purpose. This is beauty.

When it comes to beauty, art will always be mentioned, and there will always be people who say that they can’t appreciate it. In fact, it’s not that we haven’t encountered the so-called ancient pine tree with a story, but we have never regarded ourselves as painters. .

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I don’t know since when, “story” has become the standard for literary and artistic youth.

If you like a folk song, you must hear the "story behind it"; if you smoke a cigarette, you must tell a "story" that makes you fall in love with a certain brand of cigarettes; if you like a city , you must connect it with an unforgettable memory or a heart-breaking historical story; when you encounter a popular pop song, you must also tell the reason why you don't like it, so that you can appear to be innocent.

Jieyou Shao Shuai released a song "Written to Huang Huai" in 2019. When the popularity of this song continued to rise, Shao Shuai was constantly asked, "Who is Huang Huai?" ”

The teacher of the literary theory class previously talked about Wang Wei’s "Birdsong Stream", where people are idle, osmanthus flowers are falling, and the moon is quiet and the mountains are empty in spring. "

There are osmanthus and spring mountains. Is it autumn or spring?

Experts have verified that there is a variety of "osmanthus" called "spring osmanthus", which blooms exclusively in spring, so The osmanthus in the poem is not the autumn osmanthus we think of.

In fact, this explanation does not really solve the problem.

The petals of the osmanthus are very small, so they feel silent when they fall to the ground. It echoes the tranquility of the "Moonrise Birds" in the last sentence. The petals of "Spring Osmanthus" are large and full, and there is no silent feeling when they fall to the ground.

This shows that art is created. Products are not equivalent to the real world. The truth of art pursues the truth of poetic emotions. Wang Mojie saw the sweet-scented osmanthus because of the tranquility, not that he was immersed in the tranquility after seeing the sweet-scented osmanthus.

In the same way, Shao Shuai wrote "Written to Huang Huai" because he wanted to convey this helpless emotion. Huang Huai does not necessarily have to be specific to a specific person.

In this regard, Jieyou Shao Shuai's words. The answer is also very clear, "Don't ask me who Huang Huai is again. Huang Huai may be a person, a place, or some kind of sustenance in the heart, cute but unavailable, regretful, or attachment due to nostalgia, or... Dreams about gains and losses are food, and dispensable people are food. Don't ask me who Huang Huai is. It is the softest place in your heart and has nothing to do with any specific person or thing. ”

We don’t have to equate art and life, nor do we have to find many reasons to say I like something. Art and life are not that far apart.

“Aesthetic feelings arise from intuition without thinking, but association inevitably involves thinking. In aesthetic experience, we concentrate on an image that encourages isolation, while association is the most likely to distract us and make us lose focus. Concentration makes the mind shift away from aesthetic images to many things that have nothing to do with aesthetics."

We can hear a story from a song and see a relationship from a painting, which is nothing more than that. It plays the role of association when appreciating beauty, but association hinders the sense of beauty.

“Beauty comes from intuition without thinking, but association inevitably involves thinking. In the aesthetic experience, we all concentrate on an isolated and insulated image, and association is the most likely to distract us and distract us. Lack of concentration causes the mind to divert from aesthetic images to many things that have nothing to do with aesthetics. ”

Admittedly, we do not deny that a good story will add more flavor to the song, but when When we focus too much on the story behind the song, we inevitably forget the original rhythm of the song. So are you moved by its rhythm or the story behind it?

If it were the latter, wouldn’t it be great if all singers just became writers? Why would music still exist?

Even if you don’t know Huang Huai, you can still like this song; if you can’t hear the story behind the lyrics, don’t embarrass yourself.

It’s really not that difficult to like something. If you have the power to make people burst into tears, you are worthy of being loved.

“In the activity of doing nothing, people are the masters of their own souls.”

To appreciate art, you only need to be the masters of your own souls.

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Zhu Guangqian mentioned in his last chapter "The Art of Life", "There is no such thing as art without life, because art is the expression of taste, and taste The root lies in life.”

I don’t know when, I began to immerse myself in various self-disciplined life Vlogs, buying the same tablecloth, the same water cup, and even the same i in the video. pad. In fact, a lot of money was wasted. In addition to not improving the quality of my life, I also fell into regret and self-doubt caused by being in a hurry.

In fact, the beauty of the article is that "the trend is on the water, and the writing is naturally written", and the beauty of life is also the same.

"What kind of status, what kind of person you are, what kind of mood you feel, and what kind of words and deeds you show, so that people can feel that they are harmonious and complete at first sight. This is the life of art."

Blindly imitating the vlog life and applying other people's life rhythms to one's own body is like a student majoring in art who has to be dragged to a sports school and becomes confused and miserable.

In addition to finding a life style that suits you, "Fashion on the water, it comes naturally", you must also cultivate an independent personality and a serious life.

"Reluctance to bow down to a child for five measures of rice is a part of Tao Yuanming's life history. If he misses this section, he will lose his identity as Tao Yuanming. He refused to escape from prison, and even refused to escape when he was about to be sentenced. The exhortation to repay the debt of a neighbor's chicken is an article that should be included in Socrates' life history, otherwise he would lose his title as Socrates. Only this kind of life history can make people marvel at his picture. , it is a masterpiece of art. ”

Everyone can have life, but to truly be called the history of life, you must have your own independent thinking, persistence and belief. To be the most sober and most prone to tears in this materialistic era.

We say that appreciating art can rely on intuition. In terms of artistic life, one must understand the truth of "why he is who he is" and "why I am who I am".

Personality is the "hard" part of life, but we seem to have lost a lot of the "soft" half.

On January 25, 2021, short video blogger Li Ziqi refreshed her Guinness World Record title of "Most Subscribed YouTube Chinese Channel" with 14.1 million YouTube subscriptions.

The reason why she is so popular reflects people’s real desire for a slow-paced life and their yearning for the beauty of life in today’s society.

With the rise of public accounts focusing on reading such as Ten O’Clock Reading, articles such as "Book Unpacking Manuscripts" that break down a book into a summary are becoming more and more popular. Behind "national reading" is the increasingly eager desire of modern people to acquire information.

Zhu Guangqian wrote at the end of his book that there is a large car road in the Alpine valley with extremely beautiful scenery on both sides. There is a placard on the road advising tourists: 'Walk slowly and enjoy it! ”

There is half a piece of homework paper for bookmarks hidden in the books borrowed from the library. The wind on summer nights is always mixed with the aroma of barbecue. I was five minutes late for class yesterday. I just made an appointment with my classmates after class. Go eat a strawberry sundae

Walk slowly, everything you want is hidden in life.