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From goodness to beauty: the budding of Chinese aesthetic consciousness—the font source assessment of Han character “beauty”
Author: Huang Yusong
Source: Author authorized by Confucianism website, original article “Jianghai Journal” 2022 Issue 5
[Summary] Aesthetic consciousness is not about evaluating kindness, but about reflecting on evaluating beauty. Therefore, the birth of Chinese aesthetic consciousness is the emergence of the word “beauty”. The original meaning of Han’s word “beauty” is “the sheep is beautiful”, which means that Chinese aesthetic consciousness is ultimately a value evaluation of food. “Beauty and Good Criticism” reminds the homologation of Chinese aesthetic consciousness and Chinese ethics consciousness, because the original meaning of “good” is “die”. It means that Chinese ethics consciousness is ultimately a rating of food. This defines the Chinese aesthetic tradition of “from good to beauty”. This step in value awareness is a value theory that “good and beautiful are good”. This tradition of “beauty from good to beauty” is, on the one hand, “beauty does not deviate from goodness”; on the other hand, it is not “taking goodness as beauty”, but it is just saying that “goodness” is a necessary condition for “beauty”, but it is not a sufficient condition. As for why “beauty” exceeds “goodness”, this needs to be further supplemented by Chinese aesthetic consciousness. Then, she looked down at the audience and saw several steps unfolding.
What we want to discuss here is not “appreciative consciousness”, but “aesthetical consciousness”. Aesthetics is not about appreciating oneself, but about reflecting on appreciating oneself. The relationship between aesthetics and aesthetics is: “The former is an intentional (emotional, willful) thing, such as literature, art, religion, morality, law, etc.; while the latter is an intellectual (informal, scientific) thing that recognizes the former, such as literature theory, aesthetics, religion, ethics, law, etc.”; “Art as an intentionality The idea of self-identification is not scientific; but aesthetics is an intellectual idea, that is, or should be scientific”; in short, “knowledge knowledge can master intentional feelings. For example, scientific research can be conducted on ethical morality, law, politics, literature and art, and the result is ethical science, law, politics, aesthetics, literature and art, etc.”. [1] For example, when the primitive man would have a beautiful string of When the shell is worn around the neck, they have a sense of beauty; and only when they clearly use the word “beauty” to judge the shell, they have an aesthetic sense. This original “aesthetic consciousness” has evolved into some rich and stable “aesthetic concepts”, then into “aesthetic thinking” with certain systematicity, and finally into a systematic “aesthetic theory”. Therefore, the birth of aesthetic consciousness is the emergence of the word “beauty”. Therefore, to explore the germination of Chinese aesthetic consciousness, we must trace back to the origin of the word “beauty” expressed as Han.
1. The original meaning of Han character “beauty”: Sheep is beautiful
The Han character “beauty” has appeared in oracle bone inscriptions. However, the oracle bone inscription “Beauty” discovered today is used for human names and place names. Therefore, we cannot evaluate its original meaning through the specific usage of the word “Beauty”, but can only rely on the analysis of the shape of the character.
The Dictionary of Oracle Bone Inscriptions by Xu Zhongshu explains the word “beauty” in oracle bone inscriptions:
The shape of feathers or sheep’s heads is added to the heads of elephants. The shapes of feathers or sheep’s heads are beautiful. What comes from is the head of a sheep and the feathers. The “Speaking” is all from a sheep, and there is no difference between them. “Speech”: “Beauty is sweet. From sheep and from big. Sheep are in domestic animals and are mainly used to provide food. Beauty and goodness are criticized.” “Speech” regards sweet taste as beauty, which is an extension of later generations. [2]
This is a different argument to the traditional interpretation of Xu Shen’s “Shi Wen Jiezi”, and the shape of the character “Mei” is: the “big” above is a human form; the bottom is a feather or sheep’s head. But this explanation has not been widely recognized by the oracle community. Liu Xinglong’s “Newly edited Oracle Bone Dictionary” adopts two possible statements: “The elephant man has a head, showing the meaning of beauty. Or he can use it from the sheep to show the meaning of beauty and goodness.”[3] So, what is the shape and meaning of “beauty” in the oracle bone inscription?
(I) The meaning of the upper part of the word “beauty”: the sheep of cattle and sheep
The first one is the word “because the head of a sheep, the feather” or “the elephant man has a head, showing the wonderful meaning” does not rely on it. In fact, the oracle bone inscription “beauty” is called “” or “, which is indeed just as “sheep, from big”, that is, the lower part is not the so-called “head” – “sheep head” or “feather”, but in fact, it is the complete word “sheep”.
In oracle bone inscriptions, “典” means “” or “”, etc., which is exactly the lower part of the character “beauty”. In fact, the “Oracle Bone Dictionary” itself also says: the word “sheep” in the oracle bone inscription “is the shape of the front sheep head and the two horns and two ears” (i.e. the lower part of “”); ” According to the oracle bone inscription, the sheep head is actually used to represent the sheep.” [4] That’s to say, “” or”” represents a complete sheep, not just a “head”, and of course it is not a “feather”. The “Newly edited Oracle Bone Dictionary” also says: The word “sheep” in oracle bone script “is like the frontal shape of a sheep’s head, and uses a head to replace a sheep” [5]. “Yu Wenjiezi” even believes that the word “sheep” does not mean “to represent the sheep with a sheep”, but “the shape of the head with a horn and a foot with a tail” [6], that is, it is not just a sheep’s head, but an abstraction of a whole sheep.
In short, the bottom part of the character “beauty” is the character “sheep”.
(II) The meaning of “big” in the lower part of the character “beauty”: detailed and large
The original meaning of “big” in Han is a human form, without any disagreement. However, this “big” that specifically refers to the door above the character “beauty” may not necessarily refer to the human form. Traditionally speaking, such as “Saiwen Jiezi” says: “The human figure is large.” [7] But in fact, this kind of use case that is meaningful cannot be found in oracle bone script.
According to the explanation of the “Oracle Bone Dictionary”, honestly, the word “big” “like a person’s upright shape”; but the actual use cases it contains does not have this usage. The actual use cases of “big” in oracle bone inscriptions, besides being used as place names and national names (“generous”), have been “extended to be a big name, but are opposite to small”, that is, “not small”, that is, the finest, such as “big town”, “big rain”, “big wind”, “big stars”, “torrent”, “big busy”, “big night”, etc.; others such as “big show”, “big batch”, “year彩票网下载 ppt大官网”, “彩票网”, “彩票网”, “彩票网”, “彩票网”, etc., the so-called “彩票” are obviously extended from the meaning of the detailed meaning. [8]
According to the interpretation of the “Newly edited Oracle Bone Dictionary”, the word “big” “like the front of a person and the limbs are separated to show the meaning of inclusive VIP“, but this usage is not available in the actual use cases it contains. The actual use cases of “big” in oracle bone inscriptions are not only used as human names, place names, and national names (“generous”), but also “fine ones”, such as “big cow bones”, “capture foxes”, “big rain”, “big batches”, “big room”, “big show”, “big merchants”, “big food”, “big picking”, etc. [9]
In short, the “big” on the door above the character “beauty” does not refer to the human figure, but to the finest.
(III) The original meaning of the word R TC: