"Wabi-Sabi, Pelancholy, Profound" are the three key words of traditional aesthetics. The author of "Wabi-Sabi, Pelancholy, Profound" Kiri Ohnishi said that this is a kind of beauty that exists outside of language and is a kind of beauty that needs to be experienced with heart. , Pursue natural tranquility, leisurely and comfortable experience with heart.
Thanks to the rapid development of the national economy, we are gradually moving away from material needs to the desire for spiritual aesthetics.
Black and white art on canvas. The shaping of beauty is especially reflected in our biggest show-off asset "house", which strives to express the superior aesthetics of the house's architecture, decoration, and garden landscape. , so that it seems to have the temperament of a cultural person and strip away the lack of self-confidence in its own culture.
However, the superficial aesthetic of following the trend has created a situation where as long as a living room, tea room, or leisure place has logs added to the table and a "Zen tea" is hung in the middle, it will feel like it has the Japanese aesthetics that everyone calls it, even in a room that was originally simple. The mountain temples have also transformed into "relics of the Tang and Song Dynasties", which makes it feel awkward and inconsistent. Seeing such imitation, we can't help but ask, in addition to pursuing similarity, what else should we understand and learn from?
Human beings have been struggling with beauty for a long time. After the twelfth century, "Zen Buddhism" spread to Japan via China. Japanese aesthetics is very different from China's suspended metaphysics. Chinese "Zen Buddhism" has penetrated into all aspects of Japanese people, gradually leaving behind Light colors and thick ink. Zen is the soul of Japan. Tea ceremony, flower arrangement, incense ceremony, etc., these cultural types with the word "Tao", rather than being labeled as the legacy of Taoism, it is better to say that they are the stage of Zen Buddhism. Zen can be realized concretely and extensively through them.
In the sixteenth century, the tea ceremony was born. Tea masters, represented by Sen no Rikyu, poured clean water, rolled coarse mud, and repaired thatched hermitages. With purity and simplicity, they developed a new aesthetic system belonging to Japan. They inject the daily tea-drinking activity in China into the spiritual core of Zen Buddhism, and through some specific forms of shaping, this cup of lightly colored drink can actually reflect the three thousand worlds. Neutral wall art. As the externalization or materialization of the Zen spirit, what the tea ceremony wants to convey is precisely the essence of Zen - opposing the withdrawal from reality and seeking transcendent experience, returning the view of the other side to the present, and requiring the discovery in daily life of breaking away from the limitations of individual life and realizing The individual and the collective, the temporary and the eternal, the local and the whole, the finite and the infinite are harmoniously integrated, and then achieve "directly pointing to the human heart, seeing one's nature and becoming a Buddha."
As the realm created by the tea ceremony has received higher and higher evaluations, wabi-sabi, a word that expresses this aesthetic, has become deeply rooted in people's hearts. This brings us to today’s theme "Wabi-Sabi". Due to limited space, this issue mainly explains "Wabi-Sabi". As for "Mono-Ai and Yu-Xuan", I will put it in a future updated article. Friends who like it can continue to pay attention.
In the kingdom of beauty, theory is always inferior to feeling. What exactly is wabi-sabi? Before that, my understanding was rough, asymmetrical, simple, temperate, natural, kind, and more like, perhaps, a garden stone lamp covered with moss, an old tea bowl with missing corners, and the landscape of a Zen temple left blank.
Later aesthetics listed seven cultural keywords, nature, defect, haggard, simplicity, mystery, refinement, and silence. At the same time, it also belongs to wabi-sabi.
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