Many people go to the West Lake and always want to see the Leifeng Pagoda, stop at Su Causeway and go boating between the clear waters. While Mr. Feng Zikai visited the West Lake and saw the words published in the West Lake: the imperial pen of the emperor, the couplets of famous husbands, or stones, all of which were richly decorated in temples and pavilions everywhere. These famous pens will be immortal with mountains and lakes. You must pay attention to it when you have the opportunity in the future.
This book has a detailed record of epigraphy, which is a unique art in China. People in China often call "calligraphy and painting stone" the most exquisite work of art in the world, and this stone is seal cutting. Its quality depends not on the fineness and roughness of carving, but on the composition and brushwork of words. Its use in life is just like calligraphy: it is both practical and enjoyable. Make a harmonious, beautiful and perfect small world within the area of several squares.
Feng Zikai's prose is simple and honest, tolerant and meaningful, and childlike. Mr. Feng Zikai wrote that the root of "the anguish of life" is that children become adults or childhood hearts, but after a long period of repression, all the buds of blooming and passionate feelings are repeatedly worn away and dare not happen again. Childishness is an "interest" of adults. To cultivate childlike innocence is to cultivate interest, not to be seduced by things, to know the life of the universe, and not to blindly follow established habits in this world, so as to obtain the highest pleasure in life.
Adults in the world are fascinated by the trivial things in life and forget the basics of life; The only child is naive, discerning and calm.
Life between Mountains and Rivers analyzes "behind closed doors", and he points out that this shows that people are weak in dependence, conformity and creativity. If you want to build a car, you must build it behind closed doors. Don't think about the existing tracks, but have your own creation.
Life is full of dissatisfaction, and the only way to get rid of it is in art, let go of oppression and burden, relieve daily pain, live a good life and know your unrestrained life.
Mr. Feng compares the mood of a day to music. There are major scales and minor scales, adagio, allegro and andante. Climate, spring is Mendelssohn, summer is Beethoven, autumn is Chopin and Schumann, and winter is Schubert.
Seeking five flavors in art: paying attention to form, poetic and picturesque, pure music and so on. Lyrics, historical paintings, etc. Emphasize the content, the text is substantial and salty as salt. Painful satirical poems, cartoons, etc. Very spicy. Quiet and meaningful sentimental poems, serenades, etc. Tastes like acid.
Wrote the emptiness and loneliness of middle age. However, people are not alone. Man is the partner of all things in nature. Everything has a destiny, and flowers bloom in four seasons. Just let nature take its course. Live with your heart and find beauty, so life is always full of fun.
No matter how kind a person is, if he is too straightforward or too tortuous, he will never have a complete personality. We strive for this perfection with will, which is "goodness"; we know this perfection with reason, which is "truth"; and we feel this perfection with emotion, which is "beauty". So truth, goodness and beauty are one thing. However, it is only about will, reason or emotion.
Some scholars have specified five specific conditions of beauty: small body, smooth surface, curved outline, slender body and bright and soft color. Example: Why do plum blossoms look good? It can be understood that plum blossoms are small in shape, shiny in petals, wrapped in curves, delicate and bright, and soft in color, so they are beautiful! Others say that beauty lies not in the essence of things, but in one's inner feelings. To abandon rational thought and accept it at once only by feeling, that is to meet beauty.
Feng Zikai likes painting willows for a reason. The willows by the West Lake seem to have thousands of bright green beads hanging in the spring breeze, and many slightly curved S-shaped lines are floating around. You don't need noble fertilizers or deep ploughing. As long as there is sunshine, soil and water, you will live, be very strong and beautiful. Most flowers and trees grow upward. Red apricots can grow "outside the wall", ancient trees can grow "towering", but willows are very humble. The longer it grows, the higher it hangs, and the slimmer it is. They don't forget their roots every day, often bow their heads, dance to the roots in the soil with the help of the spring breeze, or give them a sweet kiss.
Some people say: I am really happy to be able to draw and play the piano. You can paint a landscape when you are lonely, and you have happiness in your chest. Play a piano, immerse yourself in a sweet and wonderful environment, and soothe your soul. With painting and music and books as companions, we can feel all the fun and the life of ordinary people will be full of sweetness. This book shows the impermanence of life in the light of clouds and wind. Finally, end with a little poem: