Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 374 Beauty and Wine

"The theory of cosmic aesthetics of the Pythagorean school is based on the study of mathematics, music and astronomy, and believes that 'beauty is the harmony of numbers'."

"Descartes put forward the famous proposition 'I think, therefore I am' in "Meditations on First Philosophy", and believed that 'what is beautiful and pleasant is nothing but a relationship between our judgment and the object'."

"Hume believes that the decisive thing for beauty lies in the 'original structure of human nature', custom or accidental mood."

"Kant's "Critique of Judgment" believes that: aesthetic judgment is "a judgment on an object or its method of expression by virtue of the pleasure and displeasure of completely disinterested ideas", and is "the only unique kind of disinterested The thrill of freedom'."

"Hegel pointed out in "Aesthetics": 'Beauty is the perceptual manifestation of ideas', 'it is the coordination and consistency of concepts and itself in its objective existence that forms the essence of beauty'."

"Santayena mentioned in "Aesthetic Sense": Beauty is a positive, inherent, and objective value."

"Chernyshevsky proposed in "The Aesthetic Relationship between Art and Reality" that 'beauty is life', which is free labor. He insisted that both beauty and art come from real life, emphasized that the beauty of reality is higher than the beauty of art, and opposed pure beauty. art theory."

"Plekhanov pointed out in "Re-discussing the Art of Primitive Peoples": Social people first look at things and phenomena from a utilitarian point of view, and then move to an aesthetic point of view."

"He believes that the things that human beings think are beautiful are useful to him, and they are meaningful things in the struggle against nature and other social life for survival."

At the end, Manager Fei held up his wine glass and recited: "Function is known by reason, and beauty is known by the ability of intuition. When people enjoy beauty, although they hardly think of function, function can be understood by science." However, if there is no utility in the foundation of the pleasure of beauty, then things will not necessarily be beautiful. Man does not exist for beauty, but beauty exists for man.”

Zhou Zhi also raised his glass, and everyone drank the wine in the glass for the third time: "From my personal creative experience, I don't agree with many of the views here. Taking this point of view as an example, it is obvious that this school of thought is suspected of cheating.”

"The so-called harmony of numbers is itself an abstraction above the concrete. What is 'harmony'?"

"Our question is not that the 'golden section' can produce a 'sense of harmony', our question is 'why can the golden section give us a sense of harmony'?"

"I personally think that human beings' psychology of beauty is actually a kind of practice, and it is a kind of satisfaction generated after the success of using 'experience' to explain and deal with 'strangeness'."

"Human beings' curiosity and exploration of the unknown is an instinct. When this instinct is satisfied, it can produce satisfaction and joy."

"And any sense of 'beauty' is actually a process from unfamiliarity to familiarity and pleasant cognition."

"Why is there such a big difference between our reading of poetry and everyday speech? It lies in its structure, expression, and construction, which are different from everyday speech. This is the sense of strangeness."

"And this sense of strangeness is subtly based on 'experience', that is, its foundation is nothing more than words and grammar, and words and grammar are precisely what we are very familiar with."

"That gives us the 'methods and tools' that we can explore."

"Poetry is the sustenance and communication of emotions. When people read poetry, they are actually using their existing experience, 'methods and tools', to complete this process of communicating with 'strangeness'."

"Once this problem is solved, the artistic conception created by the poet is understood, and his emotional expression is felt, the exploration will be successful, the joy and satisfaction of the soul will be produced, and readers will think that this poem is beautiful."

"Why are Bai Juyi's poems popular in the island country? Because Bai Juyi's poems were the most plain and easy to understand at that time. For the Chinese, the level of Bai Juyi's poems was almost at the same level as that of Li Du, but for the Japanese, such a strange The feeling is just right."

"Using this concept to apply the interpretation of 'beauty' by philosophers of the past dynasties, I found that almost all of them can be applied, so in my heart, the essence of beauty, or it should be this."

"Therefore, in all creations about 'beauty', being able to create this kind of 'strangeness' that is familiar to the public is almost half of the success."

"Huh? It really makes sense to say that." Manager Fei pondered for a while: "Yuzi can write another thesis on literary aesthetics."

"There should be such a paper, right? It's just that I'm ignorant and don't know about it." Zhou Zhi laughed.

"That's also self-satisfied and complements each other."

"It's not so easy." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The ancient Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato had many discussions on beauty. Plato recorded in "The Great Hippias" that Socrates first proposed what beauty is and systematically explored the essence of beauty, and finally admitted that it could not finally solve the problem of beauty, and ended with 'beauty is difficult'."

"That's why I can't say clearly about beauty." Manager Fei also laughed, "In my opinion, Xiaolu's taste is very good."

"I think the exhibition is arranged according to the blue-gray tone of Xiaolu's office, and it should be very elegant with black and white photography exhibition."

"Well, in fact, you can also match some black and white art decorations, so that the entire exhibition space and the photographic works on the wall form a kind of echo." Zhou Zhi is also making suggestions.

Little Sixth Sister imagined the scene of the exhibition in her mind, and filled everyone with fine wine with a smile: "So I still need to talk more with the experts. I did it based on my feeling, just what you and Elder Fei discussed just now. It’s a big piece, I’ve never even heard of it.”

Only then did Zhu Dazhang realize that the two were actually giving advice to his own film festival, so he held up his wine glass: "This is too lofty. In the words of the news, this is called... a theoretical height? Hahaha, so we can also I am more confident, come on, Teacher Fei, elbow, thank you very much!"

"Thank you so much, get me a few bottles of old sunflower." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "If it's all of the quality in this cup, the price is easy to say."

"Now the ex-factory price of this thing is 120, and the market price is 200. What you want is more expensive, especially Qiba sunflower and Bayi yellow sauce. A bottle is more than [-]."

"Just talk about the quantity."

"Two boxes of seven or eight sunflowers, one box of eight one yellow sauce, three boxes of eight three five stars."

Hearing this amount, Manager Fei shook his head: "That's more than 5000, and I can't bear it. I still want this year's honestly."

"It's still a little less, let me match the rest with Wuliangye and Laojiao." Zhou Zhi said: "It's still the same routine, you need to preserve more than [-]% of the old wine. Of course, if the quality is good enough, old brands in several counties it is also fine."

"Why do you store so much wine, Elbow?" Little Sixth Sister was a little curious.

(End of this chapter)