The author's exploration of the true meaning of artistic beauty is to explore and taste the observed things repeatedly, and bring them into his rich cultural accumulation to mobilize various artistic feelings to perceive the true beauty of "nature is always beautiful". When the author conveys his own evaluation standard of artistic beauty, he first judges whether the real flower or the flower in the painting is more beautiful. The flowers in the painting are beautiful, but compared with the real flowers, they don't "look". Then, evaluate the works of some artists. The paintings of Li Di, Zong Da and others are praised because they can appreciate the real beauty of flowers from their own paintings of flowers. "We can appreciate various gestures from Rodin's works, and we can appreciate women's skin from Ma Ginard's works"; The spirit of Zongda's painting of puppies lies in not deliberately beautifying, being objective and true; Qiao Erlang's teacups and countless paintings are so beautiful that they can "echo" the real dusk sky. Finally, the author talks about the process of discovering the beauty of Lanshan. All the information can be summed up in one point: natural art is the most beautiful art.
It should be admitted that people's experience of flowers and even all kinds of life in nature in daily life is timely. People who are good at feeling and thinking will never easily miss accidental coincidence, which is often accompanied by self-awakening consciousness. Sleepless Flowers expresses a romantic feeling in the seemingly leisurely and elegant enjoyment. The author's interpretation of Sleepless Flowers reveals how man and nature really reach the realm of spiritual openness. If human perception of nature reaches this level, it will not be limited to the interpretation of flowers at that time.
Sleepless Flowers is a short essay with only a thousand words. However, it is such a short work that, through implicit expression and leaping language, reveals Yasunari Kawabata's perception of aesthetics to the fullest, profoundly depicts the author's thinking about nature and life, and profoundly expounds the author's feelings about the beauty of life.
Kawabata Yasunari is known as "the modern explorer of Japanese tradition", and his thoughts are full of strong Japanese literary aesthetic tradition. "Mourning things" is the aesthetic taste of Japanese traditional literature, which means that Japanese literature often laments the ups and downs of life through natural vicissitudes. "Cherish friends the most when you spend the snow and the moon", get a touch of life from the beauty of nature, and integrate the beauty of nature with the feeling of life, so that Japanese literature always has a strong sentimental mood.
Sleepless Flowers gives birth to a feeling that "the beauty of nature is infinite, but the beauty people feel is limited" from the trivial matter of "waking up at four o'clock in the morning and finding that the begonia flowers are awake". Here bread contains eternal reverence for nature and short lament for individual life. Facing a blooming begonia flower at night, "I" think it is more beautiful. It is in full bloom and contains a kind of sad beauty. Kawabata Yasunari said: "The word sadness is associated with beauty." The beauty of begonia flower lies in its sadness, and the beauty of sadness lies in the loneliness and loneliness that blooms at night but no one appreciates it. At the same time, the peak will also drop. "What greets this moment is the next drop." As Kawabata Yasunari said in the following: "When things are finally expressed as they wish, they are also dead", "As long as there is a little progress, it will be closer to death. How miserable. The profound loneliness, transience, tragedy and nothingness contained in The Night Begonia Blooms form a kind of beauty, a kind of sad beauty, which is the aesthetic keynote of Yasunari Kawabata's literature and Japanese literature.
"It is in full bloom and contains a kind of sad beauty", which indicates the coming of decline and withering, and is the author's sigh for the short life; The author thinks that Begonia blooms at night, but feels beautiful in the morning, and suddenly feels pity, and then thinks that Begonia contains a kind of sad beauty, which is not unrelated to his lonely, melancholy and depressed psychology. Kawabata Yasunari lost his father at the age of two, his mother at the age of three, his grandmother at the age of seven and his blind grandfather at the age of fifteen. The lonely and unfortunate experience of childhood had a profound influence on the formation of Kawabata Yasunari's character and literary style. Beautiful flowers in bloom, at the same time, they accepted the kiss of death; The earliest ripe fruits fall to the ground first and rot in the soil; The faster a life grows, the faster it approaches death. In the face of powerful time and space, the life of a weak individual is short and fragile. This is the concrete existence state of life, and it is a reality that wise and calm people will not consciously avoid. So below, we see that Renoir and Michelangelo have faithfully expressed their acceptance of death.
Kawabata Yasunari's prose works in his later period obviously have the sentimental cultural mentality of the beauty of "mourning things" in Japan. "Mourning things" is the inheritance of the spirit of mourning things formed by the Heian Dynasty centered on The Tale of Genji. "Sorrow over things" is not only an explanation of sadness, sadness and misery, but also contains the meaning of pity, compassion, emotion, sympathy and grandeur. Kawabata Yasunari appreciates The Tale of Genji for two reasons: First, because of "helping each other in the same boat"; The second is to seek the best "ideological" fulcrum for the promotion of his own creative ideas. Of course, the two sometimes affect each other. As far as the results are concerned, these two reasons led to Yasunari Kawabata's efforts to highlight the essence of mourning, and finally contributed to Yasunari Kawabata's return to tradition and formed a complex of "returning to tradition". He believes that "the elegance of the Heian Dynasty and the sadness of material became the origin of Japanese beauty", and the sadness of material is the combination of sadness and beauty, so sadness and beauty are interlinked. In "I am in Beautiful Japan", he said: "The story of Genji is deeply rooted in my heart." "Sorrow over things" has become the basic principle of his aesthetics and occupies the most important position among the aesthetic objects in Legend. It seems that the world is full of sadness and beauty. This obsession with "beauty" and "beauty" led Kawabata Yasunari to pay special attention to "mourning for things" in his creation, as he himself said: "I can't go against this tone."
However, in Flowers for Insomnia, Yasunari Kawabata did not stop lamenting the flowering of begonia. He further wrote that although Haitang is sad, lonely and short-lived, it still blooms around the clock, which makes the author feel the strength and greatness of life and be moved by it. So, he sent out "If a flower is beautiful, then sometimes I can't help saying to myself: Live!" " This reflects the author's "from death to life" and the value of life from the perspective of death: although life is short and fragile and ends in nothingness, tragedy is the ultimate fate of mankind, but the value of life is reflected in the blooming in the process of life. This is the essence of modern western philosophy. Here, the painter Renoir and the sculptor Michelangelo are used to further illustrate this point. The beauty of mourning for things leads to the thinking of the beauty of life and the pursuit of the meaning of life from the beauty of nature, which can be used as a starting point to interpret Sleepless Flowers.
Sleepless Flowers borrows many Zen terms to write aesthetic feelings, such as "meeting", "closeness", "chance" and "opening the light". "Beauty is the result of meeting and closeness" is the central idea of the article. Encounter and closeness embody the thinking characteristics of Zen which emphasizes intuition. Meeting is an unexpected encounter, an unexpected encounter, and an acquaintance, while a good feeling is often an unexpected encounter, a sudden enlightenment and understanding. Intimacy refers to the Zen experience of walking into nature, blending into nature and integrating things with me, and it is also a way to gain aesthetic feeling. "The only ancient work of art has become the inspiration and enlightenment of beauty", among which "enlightenment" means enlightenment. Zen believes that mystery is universal and consciousness is Buddha. After enlightenment, the world became brilliant. The author believes that the acquisition of beauty is just like the "enlightenment" of Buddhism. An ancient work of art and a flower may provide an opportunity. Begonia flowers in full bloom in the morning became the author's "opportunity to discover flowers", which opened his beautiful heart and made him experience "sad beauty", thus allowing him to enter another beautiful world full of life significance and inspiring the courage to "live". Therefore, the author says that Kawabata Yasunari uses Zen terms to explain his understanding of beauty in A Flower, which embodies the aesthetic taste of Japan and even the East: the beauty of Zen thinking.
From Kawabata Yasunari's works, we can see that his natural beauty is infinite, but the artistic beauty of human society has certain limitations. Therefore, the process from natural beauty to artistic beauty is a process of creating beauty, and transforming infinite artistic beauty into limited artistic form is also a transition from infinite to limited. However, for any work of art, this is not the end of the creative process. For the appreciators of works of art, the process of appreciating works of art is a process of gazing and understanding, and it is another aesthetic stage after the process of creating beauty. At this stage, works of art can enter the heart of the viewer as an art form, rather than the infinite objective beauty of nature. It can also be said that it is the opportunity mentioned above. Through this opportunity, people can realize the existence of beauty and feel the value of beauty. This kind of beauty will no longer exist in the form of being stared at, but will remain in people's hearts. It is this that promotes the perfect integration of natural beauty and artistic beauty. It can also be said that human aesthetics has since entered a free country. Therefore, the process of creating beauty is not a cyclic aesthetic process from infinity to finiteness and then to infinity, but a gradual sublimation process from infinity to finiteness and then to freedom. structural style
The disjointed structure makes Flowers Sleepless embody a unique prose beauty. From the surface structure, the content of each part of the article is scattered, and it is difficult to find a clear center. In the first three paragraphs, I wrote the sigh of life when I found the begonia flower awake, and in the fourth paragraph, I wrote two artists' understanding of the tragedy of life. In the fifth paragraph, I wrote that beauty is the result of closeness and encounter; The sixth paragraph describes people's neglect of natural beauty; In paragraphs 7 and 8, through the evaluation of the works of several artists, the importance of observing and writing to express artistic beauty is written; In the ninth paragraph, Fan Jiro's paintings, Qiao Jiro's tea bowl and the dusk sky in Japan have the same beauty. 10, inadvertently discovered the beauty of Lanshan; At the beginning of the rebate in paragraph 1 1, further consider the reasons for discovering the beauty of begonia flowers. Each paragraph spans a large span, giving people the feeling of loose structure. However, after careful reading, it is found that the internal logic of the article is actually very strict. The whole article focuses on "beauty" and starts with the little things in life. Begonia wakes up and comes to the conclusion that "the beauty that people feel is limited" and explores the reason: "the ability of people to feel beauty is limited". Two meanings can be analyzed here: first, life is limited, life is small and short, so we can't fully feel the infinite beauty of nature; The second is that even in a limited life, not everyone can feel beauty all the time. The first meaning leads to the following feelings about life. Taking Renoir and Michelangelo as examples, it is written that although individual life is short, we should live optimistically and firmly, and let life blossom beautiful flowers, just like sleepless begonia flowers. The second layer is that beauty is not always felt by everyone, which leads to the fifth paragraph "beauty is the result of meeting and closeness", and further points out that the meeting of beauty comes from repeated practice at ordinary times. Let's talk about how to cultivate: first, careful observation of nature (paragraphs 6 and 7), and second, the spirit of seeking truth from nature (paragraphs 8 and 9). At the beginning of the last two paragraphs, "nature is always beautiful" and "the beauty that people feel is limited". Not everyone can feel beauty, and not necessarily. Beauty is just an encounter, but it is an intimate gain. This kind of structure gives people a kind of aesthetic feeling of "the words seem incoherent, but the meaning is like pearls", and obtains an artistic enjoyment of grass snake gray line, which seems to be broken. This structure increases the difficulty of understanding the article. When teaching, we must pay attention to the internal logic behind the content of the article through the loose surface, and grasp the meaning and theme of the article.
language feature
Jumping is the language feature of Flowers Never Sleeps. Generally speaking, prose is more narrative than poetic language, and pays attention to the care before and after sentences. Sleepless Flowers uses prose sentences, but the semantic cohesion between sentences is not good, and there are often "faults" between sentences, such as: "If a flower is beautiful, then I sometimes can't help but say to myself: Live!" It seems difficult to find the semantic connection between "flower beauty" and "living" here, but it is precisely because of this seemingly irrelevant that people go deep into it and ponder over it repeatedly, thus discovering its infinite meaning: the beauty of a flower is short-lived, its blooming is lonely and lonely, but it still blooms day and night, even if it means dying; This beauty cast by life touched me, made me realize the meaning of life and gave me the courage to live. Another example is: "Michelangelo's last words are the same: when things finally happen as expected, it is death." Michelangelo died at the age of 89. I like his face made of plaster. "The three sentences seem irrelevant, and it is difficult to grasp the author's intention at first reading. There seems to be no connection between "death", "he died at the age of 89" and "I like his face made of plaster", but careful taste is meaningful: although Michelangelo knew that the blooming of life also meant death, he didn't give up. He lived to be 89 years old and created many popular sculptures. Such a long life span and such a great achievement have proved the power of life and people's persistence and tenacious pursuit of life. This semantic leap makes the article have the characteristics of few words and polysemy and implicit implication. The leap of language is another dimension to appreciate Sleepless in Flowers.
narrate
Sleepless Flowers is not straightforward in narrative, but full of ups and downs, which makes this reasoning prose not boring. "Beauty is the result of meeting and closeness" is the central idea of the article. The article starts from the sleepless flower to arouse the feeling of life: nature is infinite, but the beauty people feel is limited. But then I wrote "A flower is beautiful" and I "want to live". The following paragraph gives an example to prove this point, and then I turn back to continue to discuss "beauty is the result of meeting and closeness", then I write about the beauty of nature and art, and finally I return to the discussion on the perception of beauty. The whole narrative is detached from the theme, but it is not the theme, but it is related to the theme and enriches the theme from the side. On the one hand, this narrative method enriches the content of the work, on the other hand, it gives people a tortuous aesthetic feeling in form. In addition, in some details, the author's narrative is also very distinctive. For example, in paragraph 8, the puppy who originally planned to write Zongda's paintings is very realistic, which is strikingly similar to the real puppy. He praised Zongda's "noble realistic spirit", but he did not start with Zongda's paintings, but started with the puppies in his life: "I was shocked to see a small image of a puppy." This narrative angle can create suspense, give people a sense of strangeness and arouse readers' interest. Another example is paragraph 2. Insomnia is a "well-known thing", which conflicts with the former's "I'm shocked" and the latter's "I just seem to understand", indicating that we think we know a lot of things, but we don't really understand them. "Understanding" is the experience of the value and significance of this matter, and "beauty" exists in the meaning of things. This narrative often forms a kind of tension, which first gives people an unavoidable sense of tension and at the same time stimulates readers' desire to explore answers. It is an effective way to appreciate the beauty of the article from the perspective of unique narrative style.