There is no concept of ugliness in the traditional cultural context of China.

There is no concept of ugliness in the traditional cultural context of China. This sentence is wrong.

The negative aesthetic value of things. It is the self-characteristic of ugliness in content to go against the social purpose, which is related to the negative moral value "evil" in the field of ethics; Deviation from the objective law is the formal feature of ugliness, which is related to the negative cognitive value "error" in the cognitive field.

The aesthetic experience caused by ugliness is a negative emotion, which causes the subject to have psychological reactions such as pain, depression, terror and disgust, and the subject holds a negative attitude towards it.

Compared with beauty, it exists and has the opposite connotation. Like the concept of beauty, the definitions of ugliness by aestheticians in past dynasties are quite different. Ancient Greek aestheticians thought that disharmony, disproportion, rigidity and invariability were ugliness.

Medieval aestheticians thought that the perceptual world that was not dominated by God was ugly. Empirical aestheticians believe that it is ugly to be divorced from purpose and imperfect; Russian revolutionary democratic aestheticians believe that a deformed life is ugly; Intuitionistic aestheticians believe that success is ugliness.

From the perspective of social development, Marxist aesthetics holds that ugliness is a denial and hostility to human nature, and it is something that hinders human beings from creating a better life. It can be seen that different classes, different times, different nationalities have different aesthetic concepts and different understandings of ugliness.

However, no matter how to explain it, ugliness and beauty, as the attributes of things, are always two aspects of things, and they are always opposed and developed.