-Wen Yiduo's ultimate aesthetics
Two grapefruit _ _ _
"I wish I were a cuckoo full of mountains,
? Just for a spring without regrets. "
A few days ago, I watched Jiang Xun's TED talk video "Leave Me Eighteen Minutes". When he recited "Wish" affectionately at the full moon, I seemed to see the tireless pursuit of beauty through the historical fog of 30 thousand years.
What is beauty? Let's talk about the deepest beauty in the world and Wen Yiduo's ultimate aesthetics. Wen Yiduo's aesthetic pursuit is the beauty of three dimensions: pure art, pure life and alcoholic life.
As a painter, he pursues "pure form" art. He is a scholar and studied painting at the age of five. After entering the Tsinghua campus, he and Liang Sicheng established the Tsinghua Fine Arts Society "Meisisi" named after the beautiful god in Greek mythology. In the Declaration of Beauty, he wrote: "We are convinced that the evolution of human beings is from material to spiritual, that is, from quantity to quality. The amount of life does not exceed 100 years, but his quality can be infinitely developed to a deep and mellow realm. The artistry of life is the only way for life to achieve profound and mellow beauty. " Throughout his life, he advocated that "man is not an animal" and firmly believed that life without art is futile. This is why he pursues beauty, just as he founded "Meisisi" to explore the relationship between art and life: "Since we believe that art can improve, deepen, nourish and beautify our lives, let's explore the' three noes' and do experiments with our own lives." This is his little-known identity and the prime of his youth.
In contrast, he is better known for his achievements as a poet and scholar in middle age. He should not be so conspicuous. Entering Tsinghua, he began to contact with new poetry. At that time, the development of new poetry was only two or three years, and it was still immature, let alone style. He didn't look forward and didn't appreciate new poems at first. Later, he began to write new poems following the trend of Beijing students at that time. While studying in the United States, although he studied fine arts, he loved literature more than anyone else. He had just arrived in the United States for two months, and he already knew the great touch of American poetry at that time. His poetry is deeply influenced by western poetry schools, which is the beginning of his journey as a poet. After returning to China to teach, he began to indulge in the traditional culture of China. Coincidentally, his first chance was to be appointed as a professor of classical literature. This is undoubtedly a contempt for a poet who has created a new poem and become famous. With aloof literati, I began to study Chu Ci, Zhuangzi, Zhouyi, Book of Songs, Tang Poetry and even Mao Poetry. At that time, National Southwest Associated University set up a grammar school in mengzi city. When he was there, he studied behind closed doors all day, so that his neighbor Mr. Zheng Tianting nicknamed him "Why not go downstairs". The ultimate pursuit of learning has achieved his ultimate success and created his ultimate personality.
It was in the National Southwest United University that he began his career as a democratic fighter. Kunming was originally the rear area of the war, but suddenly it became the front line, which made him feel at ease in his studies when he posted the May 4th angry youth book "Man Jiang Hong" in the Tsinghua canteen. Therefore, he stepped forward when the country was in crisis. Compared with his friends hiding in the book shelter, he refused the invitation to teach at the University of California. When he was young, he thought that "industry without art is an animal", and finally he wrote the first half sentence with his life-life without industry is a sin. We can't and can't imagine what would happen if Wen Yiduo didn't choose to stand up. There will probably be several landmark poetics, and China's cultural treasures will probably be richer. But that's all.
What we can see is that the young man who wrote "Man Jiang Hong" with blood stood in front of the Supreme Court and gave his last speech with passion. As his son Wen said, "his pursuit of beauty has changed, but his goal has never changed." Whether he is a calm and peaceful literati in the eyes of his good friend Liang Shiqiu or a revolutionary "madman with black beard", he always pursues beauty in his own time zone of "learning from the times and taking the latitude of the place". In his view, only revolution was the right way for intellectuals at that time, so he was not afraid. He is determined to go all the way. "The front foot stepped out of the gate, and the back foot was not prepared to step into the gate again." Doesn't he yearn for peace and miss the academic career in Tsinghua campus? When Japan announced its unconditional surrender, he cut off his beard that he had grown for eight years and began to try his best to return to Beijing and his study. Even before the assassination, he asked his friend Wu Han, who was going back to Beijing, to see if the bamboo in front of the study was still there. The reality is what Wu Han said when he cut his beard: "You cut your beard too early." He finally collapsed in a dozen gunshots and fell in an alley just a few steps away from home. At that time, he was "a sensitive nerve, a blazing flame" in Bing Xin's mouth. He is a "red candle". "Once it is made, it will burn! Burn it! Burn it! Burn the dream of the world, burn the blood of the world-save their souls and smash their prisons! "
He finally realized his lifelong aesthetic pursuit. He often tells his friends that he wants to live to be eighty years old. However, at the age of 47, with an unshakable image, he opened a new chapter in the book "New China". He "experimented with our own lives" and "improved, deepened, nourished and beautified our lives". He realized the most beautiful personality and created the most beautiful life.
What is beauty? Prosperity and peace, beauty is poetry and distance; Born in troubled times, beauty is the supreme personality. In human history, I'm afraid I can't find such a person who combines all-round beauty and creates great achievements in aesthetics. That's the beauty of life.