After watching the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games, everyone expressed their discomfort, saying that this was not the opening ceremony, but the tomb opening ceremony.
For example, the Olympic tree of the 1964 Olympic Games in Japan was cut down to make a wooden five-ring, for example, in the opening ceremony and the previous performances, there were a lot of eerie and chaotic, ghostly, and lifeless things.
Many Japanese culture lovers disagree, they say that this is the Japanese "material mourning culture", you do not understand, do not understand, do not casually point fingers at the culture of others, to respect the "cultural differences".
I think most people around the world can empathize.
Everyone can enjoy ancient Greek sculptures, Chinese gardens, Beethoven's Symphonies, Olympics, NBA, Hollywood movies, blood comics... Without it, it is in line with the simple aesthetics of the broad masses of the people, and aesthetics is not something tall and niche; the truly remarkable art is something that the masses of the people like and can do in public, and that is basically wrong.
In ancient China, literature and art were divided into four styles: "flowers and birds lingering, clouds and thunder, string springs and pharynxes, and snow moons and clear skies".
Flowers and birds are entangled, referring to joy and cheerfulness, you can imagine Liu Yong's words; Yunlei Isten, referring to being strong, enterprising, bold, and powerful, you can imagine some works by Cao Cao, Xin Renjie, Yue Fei, and the instructors; Xianquan Youyu, which means sadness and misery, you can go to see some works by Jia Dao, Yuan Haowen, and Ma Zhiyuan; the style of Xueyue Kongming is more peculiar, cold and lonely, similar to the Taoist "void", the Buddhist "emptiness", and the tone of Naran Zhide and Li Shutong is relatively close.
For example, most people will have an impassioned feeling when they hear Beethoven's "Destiny"; they will involuntarily rejoice when they hear Mozart's "Serenade"; they can immediately feel the sadness of separation when they hear "Farewell to the Long Pavilion"; and when they hear Ah Bing's "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", they will always have a low heart and lonely loneliness.
Some people say that Japan's cultural aesthetic is like this, advocating what is "the beauty of material mourning, empty mourning, and sparse and cool"... Right, right, I can understand, we in China are not short of this kind of literary and artistic theory, for example, Lin Daiyu saw the falling flowers into a formation, sighed "at the end of the sky, where there are fragrant hills, not as good as the bag to collect the bones, a piece of pure land to cover the wind and currents"... This one is truly beautiful.
But you let Lin Daiyu see carrion, zombies, mutant monsters, Cthulhu, Sadako... Can you still feel beautiful? She can write "Funeral Flower Song", she can write "Autumn Window Wind and Rain", but can she write "Carrion Groan", can she write "Fukushima Inhuman Song"?
No one opposes the existence of the artistic style of "mourning", mourning is not pessimistic and negative, mourning can be withered, withered, cold, lonely, but mourning is not rotten, distorted and stench.
The beauty of withering, the beauty of decay, understand, "dead vines and old trees, old trees, old crows, ancient road west wind thin horses, broken intestines in the end of the world", "leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of rain", "Jiang Kuoyun low broken geese called the west wind", "a step before the drip to the dawn"... The remnants of the mountains and the remnants of the water painted by the Bada Shanren... Isn't it this kind of "Zen" of lifelessness, emptiness and death.
But aesthetics is aesthetic after all, not ugly, you see the remnants of the mountains and water, the dead vines and old trees, the broken geese west wind... There is always a charm of civilization.
But look at the carrion with its teeth and claws, the mutant monsters, the twisted and twitching limbs... Will you feel the beauty? These curious arts are not impossible to exist, but in the end they cannot be placed under the sun, and they are appreciated by all ages.
What's more, "funeral" is also divided into occasions and atmosphere, funerals, detention, exile, loneliness, life and death can be "mourned", lively reunion what do you mourn?
The Olympic Games is a grand gathering of people all over the world, facing men, women and children around the world, and carrying forward the enterprising spirit of human civilization, this occasion is not only not suitable for frenzy, weirdness, distortion, even "mourning" is not suitable.
It's not a cultural difference, it's a spiritual issue.