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The implied content of "mourning for things" includes many factors such as sympathy, sadness, lament, praise, love and pity. In Tale of Genji, "Ai" appeared 1044 times, and "Ai" appeared 13 times. The word "thing" (もののの) is added before the word "mourning" (ぁはれ), thus combining the subjective with the objective. This feeling of "mourning for things" contains many emotions, such as appreciation, love, pity, sympathy, sadness, pity, grandeur, emotion, disappointment and so on. In my heart, I can tell the feelings of these things one by one. This is to understand the feelings of things, that is, to understand the sadness of things. Further, the so-called discrimination is to understand the feelings of things. Obviously, according to its emotion, what it feels is the sadness of things. The most important thing here is the equality of all beings. It is not pity, but it is wrong to use sympathy. It is not condescending, and it is not an emotional charity to the outside world from a superior psychological position. It is an equal sorrow, an emotional "unity" established with everything through "feeling". Suddenly, I found a kind of "feeling" in everything, as if "sharing the same fate", cherishing each other and finding a kind of "affection" in everything. Kawabata Yasunari often emphasizes that "heian period's mourning for things has become the origin of Japanese beauty" and that "the word sadness is interlinked with beauty".
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How to understand "mourning for things"? "Things" refers to all things in nature, and "sorrow" means sadness. Sympathy for the harm of things is the most intuitive understanding of the sadness of things. There are some poems in China's ancient poems, such as "Where petals flow like tears, lonely birds sing their grief", "I miss heaven and earth, and there is no limit, and I am alone in tears", "Leaves fall like the waves of a waterfall", "The stars and the wind last night" and "The forest in the plain" all express a kind of sadness induced by natural scenery, similar to that in Japan. However, this is still very different from the "funeral" in Japan.
Mourning means more than sadness. In the form of beauty, "sorrow" is no longer synonymous with sadness, so the curator of this mansion calls this kind of "sorrow for things" and "sorrow" is just an emotion in "sorrow for things". The sympathy contained in this emotion means sorrow for others, even for the world. On different levels, mourning for things may be the resolution, transcendence or deepening of sadness.
Sorrow is more desolate than sorrow. How bleak is it? Calm to the point of "silence", "idle silence" or even "empty silence", Yasunari Kawabata's Dancer of Izu begins with the situation of Xunzi, a weaver dancer, and reflects her inner sadness and deep sorrow through her slender beauty. At the same time, the middle school student "I", as the protagonist, contains profound and repressed emotions. The author consciously downplays and "mourns" the emotional tone that seems to be love but is not love. Here, Kawabata Yasunari subordinate his sadness to beauty, and let beauty restrict his sadness. Subtle sadness and true beauty blend together to create a lyric of sad beauty. Ye Qu Wei said: "As a pioneer of Japanese beauty, the sorrow of things naturally formed the special character of silent beauty contained in mourning and obedience, and became the bottom stream of empty beauty."
Sorrow over things is a view of life and death. Its subject pursues "instantaneous beauty" and does not hesitate to "seek eternal silence" in the moment of beauty. Kawabata Yasunari believes that "mourning for things has become the origin of Japanese beauty", "death is the highest art and a manifestation of beauty" ... and that the ultimate of art is death. Ye even pointed out: "There is a concept of' instantaneous beauty' in Japanese beauty consciousness, that is, praising' the brevity of beauty'. "Ancient Japanese" compared itself to cherry blossoms, and turned the concept of "instantaneous beauty" into an act that regarded suicide as the ultimate life. "The significance of their martyrdom also lies in the pursuit of the flash of instant life and the attempt to seek eternal silence in death." Therefore, the pursuit of a moment of life is an important feature of mourning.