Chinese character culture is profound, so what is the relationship between Chinese character culture and aesthetic education?

Aesthetic education is an important part of school education. Modern Chinese Dictionary defines "aesthetic education" as "education whose main task is to cultivate students' aesthetic ability, aesthetic taste and artistic interest". So, as far as aesthetic education is concerned, what is the relationship between Chinese character culture and it? We elaborate from the physical characteristics of Chinese characters and the cultural perspective of Chinese character creation.

1. On Chinese Character Culture and Aesthetic Education from the Physical Features of Chinese Characters

From the formation and development of Chinese characters, Chinese characters are not a symbol of willfulness, but are designed according to the scale of beauty, which also reflects the aesthetic standards of people in different times. Animals are only shaped according to the scale and needs of their species, while people know how to produce according to the scale of any species, and they can measure objects with their own scales at any time and place; So people also shape objects according to the laws of beauty. Chinese characters are also a special "thing" shaped by Chinese ancestors according to the "law of beauty".

Vertically, the forms of Chinese characters in different historical periods all contain aesthetic standards and characteristics in a specific period. Originally, China's writing had an artistic flavor in the Yin Dynasty. Many of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's works in the Shang, Yin and Zhou Dynasties are extremely exquisite. There is no doubt that these people who left themselves were calligraphers at that time, although their names have not been handed down. However, the conscious use of words as works of art, or the artistry and decoration of words themselves, began at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Since then, in different historical periods, people have constantly revised their posture according to the different writing instruments and the aesthetic needs of the times, making it present a variety of beauty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is thin and steep, stone inscriptions are soft and heavy, seal script is restrained, official script is relaxed, and regular script is dignified and beautiful, all of which show aesthetic characteristics in different historical periods.

From a static point of view, Chinese characters are also beautiful "things", which are reflected in the overall morphological characteristics, structural layout characteristics and word-formation strokes of Chinese characters.

The physical features of Chinese characters have the overall beauty of Fang Zhengzhi. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and seal script are all vertical characters, and their glyphs are all vertical and long. The official script is placed horizontally, and the structure compresses the longitudinal space as much as possible, so that the shape extends horizontally to the maximum extent, which can be called horizontal writing. With the rise of regular script, the font changed from Fang Zhengzhi to regular script, which reflected the overall beauty of Fang Zhengzhi.

The structural layout of Chinese characters has the beauty of balance and symmetry. The structure of Chinese characters embodies the law of balance. Chinese characters have left and right structures, up and down structures, internal and external structures, upper, middle and lower structures, left, middle and right structures and so on. All these structures have a symmetrical beauty. Such as farming, accounting, brewing, strength, standing, dad, Cui, Dai, shelf, pear, wrapping, arguing and so on. The words in the internal and external structures are mostly light inside and heavy outside, such as hoarding, pavilion, box and smell. These words have destroyed the principle of balance to a certain extent and appear unbalanced. In fact, this is an imbalance and asymmetry that transcends balance and symmetry. The imbalance in balance and the asymmetry in symmetry rise to a dialectical level and are dynamic. In addition, the layout of strokes also reflects the dynamic balance and symmetry. For example, the words on the side of the wooden character, the lower right corner of the wooden character becomes a point; The words next to the three water points all converge to the center; Also, soldiers, * * * and other words, the strokes below them are like people's two legs, firmly supporting the whole glyph; . These all reflect the beauty of the stability and balance of Chinese characters.

2. Cultural style of Chinese characters and aesthetic education

Some cultural styles of Chinese characters are not only the embodiment of beauty, but also an important way to create beauty. Here we take China's cultural styles such as couplets and interesting poems, calligraphy, seal cutting and Chinese character art design as examples.

Couplets and aesthetic education. Couplets are not only the art of language, but also the art of Chinese characters, which have both formal beauty and content beauty, and are an important content of aesthetic education. The couplets are even and even, with harmonious phonology, great sense of rhythm and beauty. At the same time, the contents recorded in the couplets are scene-compatible, such as "clouds turn to rain, snow turns to wind" in the inspiration of rhythm. The night sky sparkled under a clear sky. Come to Hongtun, stay with birds and birds. Three-foot sword, six-bow, north of Lingjiang River. The phrase "Summer Palace on the ground, Cold Palace in the sky" has cultivated learners' observation and understanding of the natural world and improved their aesthetic feeling.

Interesting poetry and aesthetic education. Interesting poetry is a unique literary style formed by using the characteristics of Chinese characters and Chinese, and it is also an important carrier to embody the beauty of Chinese characters and carry out aesthetic education. There are many kinds of interesting poems, such as embedded poems, Tibetan poems, palindromes, pagoda poems and so on. These unique poetic forms are the creation of beauty. For example, Li Yu's palindrome poem "Two Acacia" in the Song Dynasty is a poem of thinking about his wife and his husband. I am reading: I am looking at the distant mountain across the water. How many times have we met? An empty pot is afraid of drinking a glass of wine, and harmony is difficult to write a poem. The foreigners have been gone for a long time, and the news came back late. There are no geese. Lonely lights kept a long silence at night, and husbands remembered their wives, fathers and children. Children remember their father, their wives and their husbands, and the long night light is lonely. I haven't heard from the goose for a long time, and I have been away from people for a long time. Poetry is difficult to write, but a glass is afraid of an empty pot. I met several times, but my eyes dried up when I looked at the water from a distance. The lingering yearning for relatives and the repetition of poetic language forms complement each other and have received good aesthetic effects.

Calligraphy seal cutting and aesthetic education. Calligraphy seal cutting is an art of Chinese characters and an important embodiment of Chinese character culture in the aesthetic field. China's calligraphy art includes the style beauty of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, seal script, official script, cursive script, running script and regular script, including the inherent beauty of calligraphy, such as brushwork, ink method, structure and composition, including the dialectical beauty of square and circle, qu and straight, late and fast, light and heavy, fat and thin, virtual and real.

Chinese character design and aesthetic education. Chinese character design is not only an artistic creation, but also an aesthetic education. Without certain aesthetic quality, it is difficult to design Chinese characters. Learners have a certain artistic accomplishment. Taking the shape of Chinese characters as the design object, different artistic symbols are designed through the changes of lines, colors and light, so that the shape and meaning of Chinese characters can be perfectly integrated. At the same time, Chinese character design has been applied to literature, painting, architecture, sculpture and other fields, resulting in a large number of works of art.