Zong Baihua combined Chinese and Western aesthetics, but in this book, he wrote the essence of China's ancient aesthetics and wrote the elegance and agility of China's aesthetics to the extreme.
This book has four volumes, and the first three volumes are all about the exploration of beauty. Where is the beauty? She may be in lonely and silent thinking, or in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, literary works, or in a house, a scene, a arts and crafts, and she feels with her heart that the beauty of everything is everywhere.
Zong Baihua's world is a world born of beauty, and it is "a work of art in which spirit and flesh are harmonious and heart and matter are consistent."
When he talks about Rodin's art, he is the creator of beauty and truly shows nature.
He wrote and read Goethe in loneliness, and watched Goethe pursue the extreme of life in loneliness, colliding with the passion of life and the eternity of soul.
You know, the poet's words
Wandering in front of heaven,
Tap lightly
Seek permanent survival.
Please don't say anything,
Let me in!
Because I became a person,
This means that he is a soldier!
(Goethe)
The second volume contains the most contents, and the author takes readers all the way to find beauty and feel the ubiquitous aesthetic culture in China.
The beauty expressed in poetry is a kind of artistic conception. There are lines in poetry and flow in painting, which makes people have a quiet and indifferent state of mind.
The aesthetic thoughts expressed in the pre-Qin arts and crafts works and ancient philosophy, reaching the highest level of art, belong to nature.
In Kao Gong Ji, in various poems and great works, it is the core issue of China's aesthetic thought to explore this great man's philosophical thought, discover beauty and interpret beauty.
There is the highest realm of art in the Book of Changes, "Ben, colorless." Poetry, composition and painting should pay attention to "favoritism is extremely bad and unremarkable." The aesthetics of "Li Gua" connects ancient arts and crafts with architectural art, shows the relationship between art and workers, and explains the aesthetic thought of "Li Gua", which is characterized by the coexistence of reality and reality, transparency inside and outside, and symmetrical opposition.
The beauty of Dunhuang art and the leap of imagination can be found in countless arts, even in the late Han Dynasty and the Six Dynasties, when politics was the most chaotic.
Not only that, but also the aesthetic pursuit lies in the beauty of personality, Gu Kaizhi's three musts; Tao Yuanming's simple chivalry; Wang Xizhi's mood is clear, between landscape and nature; Between painting and calligraphy.
Where does beauty come from? "Poetry and nature are the embodiment of beauty, one is artistic beauty and the other is natural beauty.
Ah, where did you find the poem?
In the drizzle, the sound of broken flowers,
In the breeze, the sound of running water floats,
At the end of the blue sky, a tottering lone star!
-Zong Baihua's "Cloud Poetry"
The third volume says: Everything will be achieved through meditation.
Everyone's perception of beauty is inconsistent, so the highest level of aesthetics should be the perception of inner self. So the author mentioned: "All good light comes from the source of the soul. Without the mapping of the soul, there is no beauty. " The author lists many ancient poems, which show the profound artistic conception in people's hearts. The poet's artistic conception is actually a blend of emotion and scenery, just as the author mentioned Dong Qichang's sentence: Poetry is based on mountains and rivers, and mountains and rivers are also based on poetry. According to the author, China's artistic beauty is a manifestation of Zen and an internal destination.
Art comes from life, so beauty exists in everything. As long as you feel with your heart, feel with your heart, beauty will take root and sprout everywhere.
Therefore, in the fourth volume, the author emphasizes that everything is in beauty.
There are some conceptual languages at the beginning of the fourth volume, which are actually various forms of beauty and the differences between Chinese and western ancient artistic beauty. In the later part, I took a quick look at the excerpts of China's aesthetic thoughts in calligraphy.
"Yue Ji" said: "Every sound starts from people's hearts. When people move, things will be logical. " He talked about the influence of China's ancient book Le on human beings as "leading us to grasp the deepest rhythm and ups and downs among countless life images in the world".
The author discusses the existence of beauty from art, literary works to religious beliefs, from politics, science and technology to spiritual aesthetics, which affects people's spiritual realm.
Reading the book "the sound of falling flowers under drizzle" quoted many beautiful poems and golden sentences, which added a lot of color to the work and included many classic essays. Reading is rhythmic and artistic, and it can really be said that aesthetics is discussed in aesthetics.
Elegant cover, a little light rain, clear, light blue flowers floating in the air, like an ethereal, free spirit.