Jimo Ancient City Lecture Hall | Lin Shaohua: Japanese Aesthetics and Chinese Zen

China Shandong Network - Perception of Shandong November 19, November 19, as Qingdao Jimo District for the private sector project and international fashion city construction offensive key projects (activities) of the Jimo Ancient City Lecture Hall, invited the famous translator, Professor Lin Shaohua of the School of Foreign Chinese of Ocean University of China to give a special lecture on the theme of "Japanese Aesthetics and Chinese Zen". The event was hosted by Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Qingdao Jimo District People's Government, Qingdao Publishing Group, Qingdao Jimo District Culture and Tourism Bureau, Home Media, Business Weekly, and co-organized by Qingdao Jimo District Library.

Professor Lin Shaohua introduced the relevance of Japanese aesthetics to Chinese Zen Buddhism from eight aspects: the beauty of cleanliness, the beauty of purification, the beauty of simplicity, the beauty of timing, the beauty of group, the beauty of femininity, the beauty of sentimentality, and the beauty of symbolism, and at the same time compared the concepts of Chinese and Japanese aesthetics.

Japanese Zen thinker Daisuke Suzuki once said: "Haiku is the most handy form of poetry grasped by the Japanese mind and language, and Zen has done its best in the process of its development." ”

Professor Lin Shaohua believes that Zen is essentially a philosophy of insight into life itself, believing that eternity is every moment of the present moment, emphasizing the sudden perception of a certain moment. The haiku is precisely to pinch the head and tail, convey a momentary peace and freedom of the soul, convey the pure pleasure of all things being empty, and can be said to be the poetic expression of the Zen flower smile.

Professor Lin Shaohua pointed out that Japanese aesthetics also has something beyond the norm, even terriblely destructive. The violent beauty of the suicide of Yukio Mishima and himself is a case in point. These aesthetic tendencies also require us to remain awake and alert.