Aesthetic Contemplation

Author: Jiang Xun
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: In the chaotic and uncertain historical context of China in the past century, to take the time to reflect on the life ideals and aesthetic principles that the ancient China once upheld and insisted on, sometimes even oneself cannot help but doubt. However, those jade, pottery, bronze, bamboo slips, silk paintings, stone carvings, Dunhuang, and landscapes are still vividly before our eyes. How could they not have passed through the ages of wars and turmoil, striving to look up from the dark and melancholic depths of history, gazing up at the eternal and unceasing radiance of beauty? And this [Contemplation on Beauty] work is my promise to myself, a wish I have pledged to this nation.