Talk About Beauty Letters

Author: Zhu Guangqian
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Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: To cultivate students' innovative spirit, improve their comprehensive qualities, and deepen educational reform, the Ministry of Education conducted a comprehensive revision of the "Teaching Syllabus for Chinese in Full-Time Junior High Schools under the Nine-Year Compulsory Education" and the "Teaching Syllabus for Chinese in Full-Time Senior High Schools" at the dawn of the new century. The teaching syllabus for junior and senior high school Chinese is the fundamental guideline for Chinese teachers' teaching activities and the main basis for students' Chinese learning. This book is the author's "late-life effort" written at the age of eighty-two. It is both a review and organization of his long career in aesthetics and aesthetic thought, as well as a response to his friends who had written to him but had not received replies, especially to the younger generation. The entire book is a collection of thirteen letters. In the book, Mr. Zhu Guangqian delves deeply into a series of aesthetic issues commonly concerned by young friends, such as beauty, aesthetic appreciation, the laws of beauty, and the categories of beauty. At the same time, he provides a detailed explanation of the aesthetic characteristics of literature, the laws and characteristics of literary creation. It is both in terms of thought and methodology, making it an important reference book for beginners in aesthetics to learn about aesthetic knowledge.