In this square inch, we explore the realm of life, as if it is a journey between the past and the present.
Feng Youlan firmly believes that the study of the realm of life is a precious treasure in traditional Chinese philosophy. He said that people in the world are endowed with the same world, but each has its own heart, so the same landscape, in the eyes of different people, shows a variety of styles. Or look at it with the eyes of a geologist and see the craggy trend, or with the heart of a historian, see the traces of the vicissitudes of history.
Therefore, although one thing is in the hearts of the people, and there are all kinds of flavors. This is the realm of meaning, that is, the world of meaning illuminated by human spirit and carried by life.
Leading life with a poetic realm is the way to be lofty.
The realm, the inner nature, the external words and deeds, but also the taste of life, can be described as the manifestation of the weather.
Life is divided into three realms, daily affairs, career as the body, and aesthetics as the soul. Mundane affairs, the cornerstone of life, career, social responsibility, aesthetics, the elegance of life. The three realms blend together, reflecting the true meaning of life.
The artist's realm, that is, the refraction of his personality, is also the manifestation of the work. Therefore, it is said that the style of the ancients, the atmosphere of the king, the self-cultivation of the present, and the poetry of life. The word "end" is that aesthetics leads life, improves the realm, and achieves perfection.
Reading Mr. Zhang Shiying's exposition, I have a deep understanding. He used Wang Yangming's "a little wisdom of the human heart" to explain the "realm", and summarized the realm as the meaningful world illuminated by a person's heart and living in it. As soon as these words came out, it was like a clear spring pouring into the heart, which resonated with people.
The realm is actually the attitude of life, covering emotions, desires, interests, hobbies, yearnings, pursuits and other aspects, and is a collection of a person's past, present and future spiritual world. The realm illuminated by this "Lingming" reflects a person's inner psychological state, which the ancients called "mind", "chest", "embrace", and "mind". And this realm also penetrates into a person's external speech, smile, demeanor and attitude, forming his "weather" and "pattern".
Although the "mind", "weather" and "pattern" are invisible and intangible, they are an objective existence, and others can perceive the sincerity and elegance in them. Mr. Feng Youlan personally said that when he first met Mr. Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, he felt the temperament of Mr. Cai's "glorious wind and moon", which permeated the entire office. This is enough to show that a person's "weather" is not ethereal, but has a real sense of existence and can affect the hearts of others.
The realm is a kind of guidance, which has a far-reaching guiding effect on a person's life and practice. A person's realm determines what kind of life he will lead and guides his social behavior and hobbies. The level of the realm directly affects the quality of a person's life, and those in the lower realm are destined to live a mediocre and boring life, while those in the high realm are able to taste a poetic life.
In today's society, we should pay more attention to improving our own realm and cultivating noble sentiments and spiritual pursuits. In addition to daily life and work affairs, aesthetic pursuits should also become a part of our lives, enriching our spiritual life and elevating our life realm. May we all live a colorful and meaningful life with a noble realm.
A person's daily life, clothing, food, housing, transportation, including some details of life, can reflect his spiritual realm, reflect his survival mentality, life style and cultural taste. A person's spiritual realm will inevitably manifest itself in his every move in his daily life. A person's work and career, of course, can best reflect his life realm, and can best reflect his mind and atmosphere.
Of course, a person's aesthetic level also reflects a person's life state. A person's aesthetic tastes and aesthetic pursuits, from his artistic hobbies to his dress, all reflect a person's aesthetics, values and life pursuits, and there is a distinction between healthy and morbid, elegant and vulgar.
If he is an artist, then his artwork will definitely reflect his personality and his life state. Chinese aesthetics has always believed that the character of a work of art and the character of an artist are unified, and that poetry, calligraphy, and painting are based on character. Therefore, the ancient Chinese attached great importance to the character of the artist.
Here we can cite one of the most prominent examples, which is Ji Kang. Ji Kang has four poems: "Seeing the return to Hong, waving the five strings in his hand, pitching and being self-satisfied, and wandering in the heart is too mysterious." These four lines of poetry have always been regarded as the most beautiful artistic realm, but also the most beautiful realm of life.
"The World Speaks New Words" records that Ji Kang is seven feet eight inches long and has a special demeanor. At that time, people said that he said: "Xiao Xiao Susu, hearty and clear", and said "Su Su is like the wind under the pine, high and Xu Yin", and said "Longzhang Fengzi, natural nature". Shan Tao said: "Uncle Ji is also a man at night, and if Yanyan is independent, if he is drunk, if he is drunk, if he is drunk, if he is like a jade mountain, he will collapse." "This is the beauty of Ji Kang's style.
Ji Kang has more aesthetic talents. He is good at writing, Wei continued "Moxu" said: "Ji Kangshu, such as holding the piano and half drunk, singing and sleeping, and like all the birds flying, the flock is scattered." This realm of Ji Kang's calligraphy is the embodiment of Ji Kang's own independence of the lone pine, the demeanor of the jade mountain about to collapse, and the spirit of the wind. Ji Kang is better at the piano. Ji Kang plays the piano and integrates with his life's pursuit.
In the fourth year of Jingyuan (263), he was killed by Sima Yan at the age of 40. According to records, Ji Kang was in the east of the city, his spirit remained unchanged, he looked at the shadow of the sun, played the piano, played "Guangling San", and sighed at the end of the song and said: ""Guangling San" is extinct today. "Ji Kang integrates music into life, integrates life into music, and life and music become one, sublimating into a lofty personality realm and aesthetic realm.
The Christian aesthetics of the Middle Ages talked about the sacredness of beauty, and the sacredness of beauty they talked about pointed to God, and there was also the sacredness of beauty in the history of Chinese culture, and the sacredness of beauty in the history of Chinese culture pointed to the noble personality, the sacred value and ultimate meaning of life.
Ji Kang played the piano before his execution, played the colorful movement of his life, and completed his poetic life. Ji Kang's deeds tell us that in the study of Chinese aesthetics, we should not only pay attention to the works of art, but also pay attention to the survival style and life brilliance of artists like Ji Kang in history, who used their noble personality and life to create a poetic state of life.
Chinese aesthetics believes that aesthetic activities can improve people's cultural quality and cultural character in many aspects, but in the end, it comes down to guiding people to have a lofty spiritual pursuit and improving people's life realm.
Our ancient Chinese thinkers emphasized that a person, including teenagers, middle-aged people, and the elderly, should not only pay attention to increasing their knowledge and skills, but also, or more importantly, pay attention to broadening their minds, cultivating their own atmosphere, and improving their own life realm, that is, to have a higher spiritual pursuit, to pursue a more meaningful, more valuable, and more interesting life, and to pursue the sacred value of life.