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There is a saying in "The Book of Tea" written by Okakura Tenshin:
"Beyond the mundaneness of daily life, there is also beauty. ——The admiration for beauty is the reason why the tea ceremony thrives.
There is harmony and harmony in purity and cleanliness, as well as the subtle exchange of courtesy between the host and the guests.
There is also the compliance with social norms. Advances and retreats, and the romantic feelings that emerge spontaneously, these are the silent teachings of tea ceremony.
In essence, tea ceremony is a kind of worship of imperfection. In a life where we all understand that perfection is impossible,
A gentle temptation in order to achieve some possible perfection. ”
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A gentle temptation in the cold and rigid world. For the extension of life and the feeling of beauty.
When making tea, you start with tea, then feel the water, and then feel the mountains and rivers, which is a chain reaction of beauty.
At first you will enjoy the tea you are brewing at this moment, then the tea seat, then the tea utensils, and then to the tea space.
You will listen carefully, your intuition will let you feel and immerse yourself in this atmosphere, and then other things will naturally follow its course.
This is an unconscious process, a precipitation of aesthetics, and an accumulation of aesthetics.
Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer illiterate people, but more and more people who are aesthetically illiterate are missing out on life.
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There is a sentence in "Death Poem House":
"We read and write poems not because they are fun,
But poetry, beauty, romance, and love, these are the meaning of our lives.”
This is the pursuit of beauty, the exploration of the meaning of life, and the defense of life.
Lu Xixi said in "Lost and Found"
"I love youth, love, and poetry most.
I grew up eating these things. ”
This also means that poetry, movies, songs, and tea are all born of beauty.
It is human nature to be born toward beauty, and this has been the case since ancient times.
The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, the elegance of the Song Dynasty, and the publicity of the Ming Dynasty are all witnesses of beauty.
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Of course it takes courage to admit that life is not perfect.
Then love life in the incomplete beauty and pursue beauty.
Some people are unwilling to admit the incompleteness of life, and some are heartbroken because of the incompleteness.
The imperfections and imperfections are real and have a textured touch.
When you feel them, it is your soul touching a rough wall.
Don’t try to fill them in, observe their patterns and patterns,
Then copy and add to your own paintings like an artist.
People who don’t want to admit it are always pretending to keep the years quiet.
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In "The First Half of My Life", He Han is an almost perfect person,
rich, talented, handsome, and stylish , he is a natural god.
He is the center of attention, and he can always effortlessly accomplish things that others think are impossible.
He can make all women fall for him. He has an almost perfect girlfriend Tang Jing.
They are the golden boy and girl in everyone's eyes, but later he fell in love with Luo Zijun.
A divorced woman with children, although well maintained, a woman in her thirties.
He said that because he felt relaxed and real when he was with her.
What is reality? Reality is imperfection. Reality is incompleteness.
After he was drunk, he lamented that he had been pretending for so many years, even his feelings were pretending.
Because he did not want to admit that he was not perfect, because he was afraid of being incomplete.
Life is definitely not a peaceful life, it will only be about joy in hardship.
It is not easy to admit it and face it.
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And beauty arises precisely because of these imperfections.
Gu Cheng said: "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light."
Life gives us imperfections, but we find beauty in them.
In the gentle temptation of beauty again and again, we feel life.
The feeling of beauty is constructed through perception and cognition.
Just like making tea, you can feel it from the moment you pour it.
Your nose can smell the aroma of tea, your eyes can see the color change of the tea soup,
Your tongue can feel the sweetness of the tea, and your mouth will be filled with saliva.
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And other parts of your body will naturally feel the beauty, and then remember this feeling deeply.
The memory of beauty is recorded by the body, naturally.
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Drinking tea is a leisurely and comfortable way of life, and it is also a cultural activity that requires a sense of ritual.
If the sense of ritual with cultural connotation is lost, a lot of beauty will be missing.
This kind of beauty also created the poetry and songs of the ancients, as well as the Zen and secluded artistic conception.
Under the influence of this kind of beauty, there is a wise saying written by the ancients: "The tea is ripe in the mountains, and the wine is sober on the rocks."
"You may meet between springs and rocks, or under pines and bamboos, or you may face the bright moon and cool breeze, or you may sit under a clear window.
Just talk with guests and explore mysteries. The artistic conception and state of mind of participating in creation, purifying the heart and mind and leaving the outer world.”
There is no shortage of elements in the culture of beauty.
They come from the sense of ritual and subtle observation in life.
They come from the appreciation of beauty again and again. Gentle temptation.
If you want to reach the mysterious realm of tea ceremony, there is no magic method other than the word "jing".
Making tea is a kind of exploration of beauty and gentleness.
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