Talk About Beauty

The book "Talk about Beauty" is my first contact with a book about aesthetics. In my ideological realm, beauty is only superficial, the beauty of the appearance of an object, the beauty of a person's outer skin, but I never knew that beauty can also be produced through association, evoking beautiful memories, fragments, or emotions deep in the memory. Art is a symbol of beauty, beauty is found in life, and life becomes art through the transformation of rhetoric. Our life is inseparable from beauty. This book teaches us how to discover beauty in life and how to create beauty, letting us understand that emotion and beauty are complete organisms, making our lives rich in emotional color, and life is beautiful everywhere. Another thing about this book that I like very much is that the author quotes many beautiful verses and tells different stories behind different verses. When we feel the beauty of art, we can resonate with the emotions behind different stories and understand the meaning of beauty more deeply. A beautiful work, I highly recommend reading it!

I finished reading Mr. Zhu Guangqian's "On Beauty" in one sitting. I thought it would be a difficult and profound learning process. Unexpectedly, the old gentleman used simple brushwork to bring me into a vivid abstract world in a simple and profound way. Regarding everything in life, we in the secular world always have the mentality of using it to achieve our own goals and regard it as our stepping stone. It should be noted that only by looking at things independently and insulated can we appreciate their beauty. If you have practical purposes, your mentality will be lost. So at the end, the husband said with emotion, "Walk slowly and enjoy it."

The author of this book, Mr. Zhu Guangqian, is a leading figure in the field of aesthetics and one of the pioneers and founders of modern aesthetics in my country. The content of this book is a discussion of the basic ideas of aesthetics. Mr. Zhu Guangqian presents us with a colorful world of beauty with his exquisite writing style. He told us in detail and in-depth about the "essence of beauty", "beauty and nature", "beauty and association", and helped us learn how to discover beauty and how to create beauty, and then led us step by step from these simple concepts to integrate into our own lives, and finally rose to the "profound" topic of "how to be a human being", which is thought-provoking. This book opens the door to "beauty" for us and allows us to see a different aesthetic world! Worth reading again and again!

"When I wrote this letter, I did the same as I usually do when writing to my brothers and sisters, with a piece of paper in front of me and a pen in my hand. I wrote whatever came to my mind without reading any books. What I said is what you can understand, but I dare not force you to accept it in full," said the author Zhu Guangqian. He is an esthete. A native of Tongcheng, Anhui. Graduated from the Department of Liberal Arts and Education of the University of Hong Kong in 1922. In 1930, he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. In 1933, he received a doctorate in liberal arts from the University of Strasbourg, France.

"There is a distance but no barrier between art and life. Affirming the distance between art and real life does not affirm the gap between art and life. Strictly speaking, there is no art without life, because art is the expression of taste, and the root of taste is in life. Without art, there is no difference in life." Art comes from life, and our life is originally an art feast. The article tells us about the beauty in this art feast of life. After reading this book, I have a different understanding of "beauty". When we are running for life, we forget the scenery along the way, and these scenery are often very beautiful. These scenery constitute the artistic feast of life. Stop and observe, and you will find that life is everywhere.

The instructor asked me to read it. It was really painful to read it at first because there was no plot. But the more I read, the more I realized that Mr. Zhu's writing style is really good. His logic is clear and self-consistent, his arguments are rigorous and rigorous, and his writing is refined and mature. The most important thing is his writing style, as if he was unconsciously writing. Moisturizing things silently, integrating every bit of reasoning, picking up all kinds of poems, dictionaries and anecdotes at your fingertips. This is the real master. It's clear whether you have literary talent or not. It's really amazing. I finished writing the reading notes that the instructor asked me to write and even excerpted a lot of things. It's really rewarding! [Send heart][Send heart]

Very, very good, very, very perfect, very, very worthy of five stars. In fact, it is already a prestigious monograph on aesthetics, which is often read and updated frequently. I always say that I want to see Zhu Guangqian and Zong Baihua fight, but ordinary people like me haven't fully understood the views of these great men. At most, they can just talk about it and enjoy it. "Look slowly and appreciate it." I didn't know what to say for a moment, so I came up with this sentence in my mind, and then thought of "The End of the World and Grim Wonderland" by Haruki Murakami. This is probably the association mentioned in the book. From this, I circled around to the sense of beauty, the physical beauty of the ancient Greek body, Plato, the School of Athens, and "The Republic". A steady stream. The beauty that is invisible, intangible, and difficult to define was laid before my eyes bit by bit. The beauty in every little bit of life is also clear little by little. People live in beauty and constant appreciation.

I really recommend beginners to read this book as their own aesthetic enlightenment

The book "Talk about Beauty" is like a dear old friend, sharing his unique views on beauty with you. The content in the book will not only give you a deeper understanding of beauty, but also help you discover more beauty in life. Just like a friend of mine, through this book, he learned to look at life with appreciation and became more optimistic and cheerful. Moreover, the analysis of various aesthetic concepts in the book also benefits people a lot. For example, the debate between realism and idealism allows us to think more when appreciating the works. All in all, this is a good book worth reading again and again!

This book has a deeper understanding of things, and is fascinating in the form of self-questions and answers. There are many nominations from famous foreign scholars in the book (there are also English translations, which are very considerate). The theories in the book are very convincing and artistic. It uses multiple angles to analyze the problem, which is great! Recommended for Taoist friends~

Very good, philosophy of life

I like it very much. I gained a lot of basic knowledge of aesthetics, which allowed me to study poetry more deeply.

Good-looking, suitable for watching when you are confused and troubled

Explain the profound things in a simple way, with vivid images, clear thinking and reasonable words.

Really awesome

Well, the teacher asked us to read it. Not to mention how much we gained from it, but it did make me understand "beauty" a step further.