Several understandings of the Beauty of Bonsai with Strange Stone

China is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world with a long history. In 1977, archaeologists excavated a potted plant in the Neolithic site of Hemudu, Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province (more than 6000 years ago). The picture shows a plant with five leaves growing in the basin.

In the painting of the tomb wall of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Wangdu County, Hebei Province, there is a picture of potted flowers; six safflower branches are planted in a circular basin, with several square frames under the basin, forming a trinity artistic image of plants, pots, and several frames, as shown in figure 1-1. This painting from more than 1700 years ago is very similar to today's bonsai, so it can be said that this is the predecessor of bonsai.

During the Northern and Southern dynasties, Xiao Zixian of the Liang Dynasty recorded in the Book of Southern Qi: "it is said to be famous for carving Shishan in Shaoxiao County." It is said that the handicrafts carved stone mountains made in Huaiji County are famous for their praise to each other. From this record, we can see that the landscape bonsai in this period has developed to a certain extent. There are different opinions about the origin of bonsai, but there is no final conclusion at present.

The concept of bonsai aesthetics is often mentioned in bonsai books, such as bonsai beauty, root art beauty, natural beauty, stone beauty, artistic beauty and so on. No one seems to have systematically discussed it. In fact, before studying bonsai aesthetics, root art aesthetics and stone play aesthetics, we should first answer the basic concept and theoretical question of "what is beauty?" Because beauty is the most core aesthetic concept and the most important aesthetic category. Therefore, the definition of beauty is a basic theoretical problem in aesthetics.

(1) several understandings of beauty A. People who think that beauty is the objective existence of labor, life, struggle, image, contradiction, attribute of things, model, nature and form, the mistake is to confuse the concept of beauty with the thing of beauty or the source of beauty (the source of beauty), that is, beauty = the source of beauty). Therefore, beauty is regarded as an object that does not depend on people's intention to attack, which is actually not the answer. They deny that beauty belongs to ideology. It belongs to the category of secondary sex, which is obviously a misunderstanding of the definition of beauty.

b. Beauty is the study of subjective and objective integration, which was put forward by Mr. Zhu Guangqing, but how can it be "unified"? Finally, in terms of the artistic characteristics of Liu Mei's "image of things", if Haizi does not jump out of beauty in the end, his beauty is secondary, and the exposition of ideology is self-contradictory. Therefore, Mr. Zhu's definition of beauty is eclectic, giving people the impression that it is specious. "Beauty, if you want to find an ideal for it, must not be empty. But beauty determined by a concept of objective purpose "(Kant)

c. The fault of people who think that beauty is pleasure is that they only regard perceptual beauty as the whole of beauty, and their understanding of beauty only stays in the perceptual stage and makes the mistake of empiricism. Therefore, they lack or hold a negative attitude towards the experience of others and human beings' understanding of beauty and the law of beauty.

d. Beauty is the idea, rational formula, or the view that beauty is created by God, which belongs to metaphysics and idealism. Beauty is the meaning. As far as Chinese poetry and painting is concerned, it has its correct elements, but the scope is too narrow to generalize the full meaning of beauty. The so-called "artistic conception" also refers to the "state of mind", which is relative to the "material state" and "color state", that is, the face of the object world. Therefore, the so-called "artistic conception" actually refers to the ideal realm of the subject's heart, but this ideological realm resonates under the influence of the outside world, which produces the artistic conception. The characteristic rules of bonsai art on artistic conception. It is usually expounded from the aspect of artistic expression, while the analysis of bonsai aesthetics has the characteristics of rational induction from the internal relevance of related concepts such as artistic conception. e. Like the deified. Agnosticism pushes people's understanding of beauty to a dead end.

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