What are the seven beauties in Japanese tea ceremony culture?

Japanese tea ceremony culture has its unique aesthetic attributes, and * * * has seven beauties: flaw, simplicity, haggard, natural, mysterious, exquisite and silent. Let's explain these seven beauties one by one:

Beauty of defects

Although Japanese tea ceremony pursues spiritual "one heart", it advocates facing up to the imperfections of real life and appreciating the defects. For example, in the tea bowls used in tea ceremony, we can often see uneven and consistent ceramics, some are asymmetrical, some have insufficient glaze color, and some are rough. There are also tea ceremony artworks such as flowers or hanging shafts in tea rooms, which are often uneven and uneven. This flawed beauty often has deep charm. Japanese tea ceremony believes that the beauty of defects is a strange and single beauty. Just like the cursive script in China's calligraphy and the wild grass in flowing water, there is a strange beauty that seems irregular and standardized in the forgetfulness of non-block letters.

The beauty of simplicity is the second attribute of Japanese tea ceremony culture. One of the basic elements of Japanese tea ceremony culture is the nihility of Zen, so the simplicity of tea ceremony is one of the manifestations of nihility. For example, in ancient Japanese architecture, although the buildings of shrines and teahouses all admire the beauty of simplicity, the simplicity of shrines and teahouses are two kinds of simplicity under the same concept. The architecture of the shrine is simple, dignified and quiet. The Guilin Palace in Kyoto and the Meiji Jingu in Tokyo are all made of giant trees and neat boulders. The building of the teahouse is simple, simple and quiet. The materials are made of local materials, rough wood and simple tiles, which shows a secular desire to cultivate one's mind and cultivate one's health. These two simple elements both embody the beauty of Japanese Zen. There are only evergreen trees without flowers and plants in the teahouse, and the paintings in the teahouse are mostly fresh water ink landscape paintings. Especially the wooden pillars or beams in the teahouse, it seems that the carver is careless, but there is an innocent and simple beauty that makes people unforgettable. When you walk into the teahouse and tea room, you will find that there is no luxuriance, only elegance. This simple and simple beauty contains quiet beauty.

Haggard beauty

The blank without feeling is clear, and the height of loneliness in old age, after years of vicissitudes, no matter how old, has a silent beauty without feeling. In the teahouse, we often see calligraphy or paintings hanging on a shaft, with faint ink marks, or old stripped tea boxes. Although it looks withered at first glance, it makes people realize the beauty of masculinity, not strong in appearance, and masculine in heart.