Author: Qingyang Wanxi
Original article published on 2021-11-1
Persimmon leaf dancing autumn wind, this picture of withered artistic beauty is enough to make you intoxicated! (Prose)
The autumn breeze is cold, and the grass and trees are shaken and dewy. In late autumn, an autumn rain and a cold rain, continuous rain, rare a sunny day. That patch of trees should be red, right? I walked into the forest with my regent, thinking that I should have a wonderful autumn date with her, and I would enjoy the autumn leaves here... Unexpectedly, the destruction of this wind and frost, the erosion of autumn rain, made her wither prematurely, the autumn leaves were falling in clusters, and even if there were still some branches holding incense, they had already rusted and mottled... I felt a pain...
Wandering under the tree, then change the angle, change the mood, and that's all there is to it. As a result, we saw the branches of the oak tree dancing vigorously, and the remaining leaves seemed to tell the story of autumn...
Francis Bacon once said in his interpretation of beauty: "The beauty of appearance is higher than the beauty of color, and the beauty of graceful and appropriate movement is higher than the beauty of appearance, which is the essence of beauty." (Cao Tinghua, "Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education, page 70") This tree has been mottled, the color and appearance are no longer beautiful, but her branches and strong leaves are still very beautiful, the branches are weak and strong, the rhythm and the wind and bone, the withering and display of the leaves, mottled and tough, this is the essence of beauty, the art of beauty! In Hegel's view, natural beauty and artistic beauty cannot be compared. Hegel pointed out: "Artistic beauty is higher than nature. Because artistic beauty is beauty that is generated and regenerated by the mind. The mind and its products are much higher than nature and its phenomena, and the beauty of art is much higher than the beauty of nature. (Hegel, Aesthetics, vol. 1, p. 4) When you appreciate this withered persimmon dance autumn wind as an artistic beauty, she is no longer nature and its phenomenon, she is the mind and its product, that is, a new form of beauty. This form is what Zhang Xuecheng of the Qing Dynasty in classical Chinese literature talked about as "the image of the human heart." (Zhang Xuecheng's "Literature and History Tongyi", Part I, "Yi Jiao").
Friends, when you come to the forest, this picture of withered artistic beauty is enough to make you intoxicated!
Original photography
Shooting time: 2021-10-30
