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"Vigor and Melancholy" is one of the "Chinese Aesthetic Category Series". The first part of this book explains "vigorous", discusses its formation and development process, analyzes its relationship with related concepts, and compares its similarities and differences with Western "sublime"; the second part discusses "depression", first sorting out the generation and development of depression, making the conceptual connotation of depression clear, and through the study of model texts and the comparison of "depression", "frustration", "elegance" and other related categories, so that the aesthetic meaning and value of "depression" can be fully demonstrated as much as possible.