thoughts on stone appreciation
Wen/He Gang
by He Gang
The creator of ornamental stones is nature, and people only discover the beauty of natural creation when they admire stones. It is not easy to create beauty, and discovering beauty is the key. The person who discovers the beauty of ornamental stone is also the first person to give it life connotation. In fact, people's physique is integrated with nature, and they belong to nature as well as stones, but the order created by human beings has alienated people from nature. The collection of ornamental stones is an artistic category in which human beings yearn for, approach and return to nature, and it is the concept of "returning to nature and returning to nature" with their own behavior.
However, people's aesthetic experience is unreliable. They need fresh and exciting aesthetics, and always walk on the road of pursuing the trend. What is really reliable is people's denial and exploration spirit. Imagine that even if the history is transplanted back intact, people's aesthetics will still turn to another artistic conception after fatigue. The artificial reproduction of modern art and commercialization have caused people's fatigue in viewing artificial art; However, a trend of natural art began to stir in China, that is, the natural pride-ornamental stones. The core competitiveness of natural ornamental stones should be natural stones without any artificial carving. It is rare, precious and easy to collect, and it is not affected by weather and seasons. Its unique beauty is like a magical mirror, which makes all people in the world highlight the artificial art. It is a combination of form, quality, color, sound and rhyme, which embodies the traditional aesthetic taste, reflects the philosophy of the East, and makes this seemingly lifeless object give spiritual enlightenment to human beings.
Anyone who collects ornamental stones should look at an ornamental stone. If his mind is as calm as water and his thoughts are safe, it will prove that this ornamental stone is "mediocre", because it can't make people realize the aesthetic enjoyment of ornamental stones. On the contrary, if you can't sleep after watching the night, it proves that this ornamental stone is by no means "idle", and its aesthetic discovery completely exceeds the scope of people's experience in enjoying the stone, which strongly stimulates people's aesthetic nerves and gives people a profound understanding and fresh aesthetic enjoyment.
The appreciation of ornamental stones should have aesthetic taste, stand up to aesthetic analysis, and require the appreciation of elegance and vulgarity, which not only experts can appreciate, but also the public can accept. Appreciating stone, artistic conception is the vitality of supporting stone, artistic conception is also an important category of classical poetry, and poetic meaning is the highest realm of appreciating stone. Poetic sentiment refers to the poetic profound artistic conception of stone appreciation, which achieves the artistic realm of poetry in the scene, scenery in the poem, lyricism through the scene and blending of scenes. The beauty of artistic conception of stone appreciation comes from generate in the virtual reality and fantasy reality, giving people unlimited imagination space. For example, when people appreciate a beautiful landscape stone, even if it can't reach the true mountain state, they can feel that the true mountain is in front of them. This is the situation of touching the scenery, and at this time, the stone appreciator enters the realm of selflessness. This is the same as the space that a poem can arouse people's imagination.
In a word, stone appreciation means to discover beauty, appreciate beauty and express beauty with the view of natural art, to enjoy freely without being influenced by any era, trend or faction, to improve aesthetic quality with literature and art, to put aside utilitarianism, to play with stones with a normal heart, and to follow your own path, believing that the bright moon is eternal beauty.