Neutralization is a Confucian requirement for etiquette and music, and it is also an ethical and moral norm. "The Analects of Confucius": "Happy but not obscene, sad but not sad." "Book of Rites: Doctrine of the Mean": "The end of happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy is called the middle, and the beginning of all is called the middle. The middle is the greatness of the world. The origin; harmony is the way of the world, which leads to harmony, the position of heaven, and the cultivation of all things." "Book of Rites·Jingjing": "Gentleness and kindness are what the "Poetry" teaches... He is gentle as a human being. Being honest but not stupid is deeper than "Poetry". "As a criterion for literary and artistic creation, the general meaning of the beauty of neutrality is to express emotions but be restrained, and to handle the subject (the artist's feelings) harmoniously and appropriately. Various relationships between objects (objects, situations). What it pursues is the artistic conception formed by the combination of subject and object in works of art.
1 The Beauty of Neutralization in "A Dream of Red Mansions"
The formation of the beauty of neutrality in "A Dream of Red Mansions": Cao Xueqin faces the crisis of survival, illustrates the various confusions in life, and understands the "good" convenience It's "final", and the beauty of neutrality is formed in an integrated manner.
The development of the tradition of the beauty of neutrality in "A Dream of Red Mansions": The beauty of neutrality in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is not simply "allowing it to persist", but breaks through the traditional aesthetic principle of "moral harmony". It is a highly harmonious artistic crystallization. First of all, "A Dream of Red Mansions" breaks through the neutral focus of "promoting emotions and stopping at etiquette". It turns into using a detached mentality to be indifferent to all right and wrong, good and evil, joy, anger, sorrow, beauty, ugliness, spirit and flesh, and to dilute the prosperity of human affairs. Secondly, Cao Xueqin has fully paid attention to the publicity of literary and artistic works. He has absorbed the cultural essence, artistic forms, and techniques of various genres throughout the ages, and incorporated them into his own artistic creation extremely subtly, becoming an encyclopedia. Thirdly, the traditional tragedy form of Chinese novels is "quasi-tragedy". The great tragedy of "Dream of Red Mansions" has been slightly tilted towards the spiritual and physical crisis and even destruction of modern Western individual personality after the tragic conflict of opposites. The liberation in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is to realize the true meaning of life after "feeling one's own pain".
The performance of the beauty of neutrality in "A Dream of Red Mansions": the theme song of the beauty of neutrality - "Hao Song"; the beauty of harmony in the harmony of life - sublimates "downplaying human affairs and being indifferent to life" To "beyond the beyond, the greatest and unlimited; within its circle, the roundness of principles is blended into perfection, just like Tai Chi."; the beauty of harmony in the life process - birth, development and struggle, ending and sublimation. It reveals the inevitability of life towards death and one of the underlying driving forces of people's journey - death is not external, and death is not just a superficial phenomenon of life. It is the driving force of human physiology, psychology and even the entire life, and it is also the driving force of human beings. "The life of a swan"; the harmonious beauty of a typical character - Jia Baoyu's full character, harmoniously condensed into a main body, wealth nourishes Baoyu, but Baoyu can be rich and decadent, decadent and not vulgar. , so "Zhonghe" became beautiful. (1) He didn't want to study for Yingju, but he envied the elegant and elegant people in the feudal era who indulged in poetry and wine. (2) He didn't pay much attention to rank and status. , but maintain the boundary of master and slave. (3) Respect women, but adopt multiple standards. (4) Pursue romantic love, but lack the awareness of marital responsibility.
The limitations of the beauty of harmony in "A Dream of Red Mansions". : Disdainful of creating life and the world; using a perceptual and vague approach that has not yet reached a clear and definite understanding; Gao E's continuation book, the happy ending of the family's resurgence
2 The beauty of harmony. —Zhang Qiyan’s calligraphy works exhibition and a large number of pictures of his works
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In calligraphy. "The Beauty of Neutral Harmony" advocates a realm of peace, indifference, and calmness, and any performance that is tense and harsh is considered to be inferior to the best. Therefore, in the creation and appreciation of calligraphy, "soft on the outside and strong on the inside" " is a higher standard. The appearance should be beautiful and natural, noble and gentle; but the bones should be strong and powerful, penetrating into the wood. The contradictory relationship between softness and strength cannot be inverted. If the appearance is very "rigid" but the bones are very " Soft" is counterproductive. Therefore, the support point of "soft on the outside and hard on the inside" lies in the "rigidity" of the bone strength. Otherwise, if the skin does not exist, how will the hair be attached?