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_ What does the beauty of silence mean?

The beauty of silence means a simple and restrained way of appreciation, representing a relaxed attitude towards simplicity, nature and melancholy, and loving the imperfections and defects of everything in the world, from architecture to pottery to flower arrangement.

"Silence, sorrow and seclusion" are three key words in Japanese traditional aesthetics. The author of "Mystery, Sorrow and Silence" said that this is a kind of aesthetic feeling that exists outside the language, and it is an experience that needs to be experienced with your heart. You should pursue the tranquility of nature with your heart and be at ease.

Thanks to the rapid development of the national economy, we are gradually getting rid of the desire for material needs to rise to spiritual aesthetics, and the shaping of beauty is especially reflected in our biggest show-off asset "house", which tries its best to show the superior aesthetics of the building, decoration and garden landscape of the house, so that it seems to have the temperament of a cultural person and is not confident in stripping its own culture.

On the other hand, the superficial aesthetic style of following the trend has created that as long as the living room, tea room and leisure place are all furnished with logs and "Zen tea" is hung in the middle, you will feel that you have what everyone calls Japanese aesthetics, and even a primitive and clumsy Shan Ye temple has become a "legacy of the Tang and Song Dynasties", which makes you feel awkward.

The struggle between human beings and beauty has a long history. /kloc-After 0/2 century, "Zen" spread to Japan via China, and Japanese aesthetics was quite different from China's suspended metaphysics. China's "Zen" penetrated into every aspect of the Japanese people, leaving light colors and thick ink gradually. Zen is the soul of Japan. Tea ceremony, flower path, fragrant path, etc. These cultural types with the word "Tao", instead of being advertised as the legacy of Taoism, are all stages of Zen. Zen can be realized concretely and widely through them.