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Is the modern world we live in an era of diminished aesthetic ability? Mu Xin is a Chinese writer who takes the world spirit as his body. Chinese literature has acquired extremely rich cosmopolitan connotations in his style. There is a paradox. Mu Xin is an "exception" to our current literary state, but it is the "normal" in world aesthetics. ... There are various arches in the world, which either show the glory of the empire, celebrate victory, symbolize triumph, or support magnificent religious buildings, rising to the sacred apex with strong and elegant curves. Thought and art are balanced and stable due to the interaction of two counterforces, which are invisible arches: nation and world, East and West, modernity and classics, innovation and inheritance, irony in passion, androgynous imagination. Half of modern art is the fleeting present, and the other half is unchanging eternity, Baudelaire said. And Mu Xin has a saying: "Like half of an arch, I am in danger of falling; like the other half of an arch, you are in danger of falling; the two halves are closely connected to form an arch, and time flows through it like water. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and the arch remains motionless... You must know that your strength lies in me. , All because my strength lies in you." Mu Xin usually refuses to talk about himself, so Tong Ming's literary criticism collection "The Arch" can also be regarded as a "reflected collection of conversations between old friends" between Mu Xin and Tong Ming for nearly 30 years, which is extremely precious.