An Aesthetics Study Of The Hmong Epic "King Yalu"

The Hmong is an ancient and great ethnic group in China.The Hmong people have created a colorful culture in the long history,providing a broad and rich soil for the study of Aesthetics.The Hmong epic "King Yalu",as a major discovery of folk culture in the 21 st century and the first full-length heroic epic of the Hmong,is a concentrated representative of the splendid culture of the Hmong.The epic tells the history of the creation,entrepreneurship,war,migration and restoration of the Hmong people represented by the ancestors of King Yalu and himself.Operation,symbiosis and co-prosperity,and penetrating the world,it tells the life experience of the ancestors of the Hmong people who moved from the sky to the earth around the main line of life,struggled to start a business,traveled thousands of miles to find a beautiful place to live,and returned their souls to their homeland after death.The epic is rich in content,involving 155 characters,93 geographical scenes,and about 74 species of various creatures,including animals and plants.Through the symbiosis and coexistence between man and nature,man and society,and man and gods,it reflects the Hmong.Cosmic,ecological,historical,social,cultural,and aesthetic concepts and styles,lifelike characters,thrilling war scenes,tragic and grand migration scenes,long-term expansion of territory,surging crowds of people forging iron and salt,leaving home and one by one Reluctant to give up,the narrative style is continuous and convoluted,the emotional expression is delicate and rich,the historical plot is tactful and moving,and the artistic conception is full of interest.It contains rich aesthetic thoughts and is of great significance to the study of Hmong aesthetic.In terms of theoretical construction,based on the word frequency analysis and text content research of the epic text of "King Yalu",this paper fully draws on and absorbs Professor Feng Xiaolun’s triple life thought in life aesthetics,to further extend the scope of human life to the biological world,non-biological world and even the wider material world,so as to establish a theoretical basis with "self" as the logical element in the grand vision of all things in the universe,and discuss the "self" From the most primitive level of "empty self",in order to show self-realization and self-beauty,under the interaction of the two forces of outward generation and inward return,push the universe from the state of "nothingness"(the existence of nothingness,the desire to find the entity Existence),through the eight-level transcendence of emptiness,disorder,purposelessness,unconsciousness,human individuality,the existence of entities,particularity and typicality,finitude and relativity,in the external bondage and self In the process of self-expansion and return of "self",it has successively created a natural beauty system that expresses itself in "form",and a society that expresses itself in "action".A beauty system,an artistic beauty system that expresses itself in "spirit".In the natural beauty system,"self" transcends its own emptiness and disorder to produce the beauty of order in the physical world,thus realizing the transition from "nothing" to "being",and ensuring that the entity existence of "being" is running stably.On the basis,the rich beauty of "one" to "many" has been developed.However,at this time,"self" is limited by the material body and can only run monotonously within its own frame without purpose."self" is eager to break the limit of purposelessness.And then obtain the purpose,to achieve a higher level of beauty;so "self" surpasses the purposelessness to obtain the purpose and produces the beauty of the life world,and then in the nature of various creatures and living things,living things and non-living organisms.The symbiotic beauty emerges from the coexisting ecological relationship,which together constitute the aesthetic expression of "self" in the natural field.In the social beauty system,"self" has further surpassed the unconsciousness of life to acquire consciousness.This consciousness has promoted the comprehensive upgrading of human’s social behavior consciousness and human spiritual consciousness,and social consciousness has further surpassed human individuality.Promote human participation in group labor and use tools to obtain social life,thus forming a human society centered on human behavior.This behavior is manifested in the transformation relationship between man and the natural world.Harmonious coexistence with people produces the beauty of pursuing benevolence,and it is manifested in people’s ideal pursuit of the future,which produces the beauty of pursuing prosperity.In the artistic beauty system,the spiritual consciousness of "Self" has autonomy,and it has the ability to transform the form to take the meaning,express the spirit with the meaning,and combine the form with the spirit.Therefore,"Self" strives to transcend the physical existence of form in the natural realm and action in the social realm,thus establishing an art world with an autonomous spirit.Spirit condenses into an individual with typicality and particularity to produce the beauty of the image that embodies the meaning of "oneself".When "self" transcends the particularity of the meaning of "oneself" to obtain universality and subjectivity When the beauty of the image with the meaning of "common self" is born,when the "self" transcends the finiteness and relativity of the meaning of "common self" to obtain infinity and absoluteness,the emptiness of "empty self" is born.The beauty of the image,in this way,"self" returns to its logical origin,"empty self".From "self" return,"self" realizes a journey that spans natural beauty,social beauty and artistic beauty.In the end,"self" entrusts the task of self-return to the spiritual.Consciousness,the artistic spirit that takes beauty as its true meaning,when human beings are born for beauty,human beings can return to the embrace of "self",and human beings can find their independent self,free self.Realize the return of oneself in the soul,grow out of beauty,return because of beauty,shuttle in the trajectory of beauty,like a popular note that scratches beauty in the sky,and finally returns to nothingness.Taking self as the starting point and clue,based on the excavation and summarization of the aesthetic consciousness and aesthetic practice of epics,through "form","action" and "spirit",it systematically integrates the beauty in the natural field,the beauty in the social field,and the beauty in the art field,through the combination of epic text and other oral epics,funeral ceremonies,costume art,dance art,field investigation and other methods to demonstrate and express the aesthetic characteristics of the epic,and form an aesthetic study of the "King of Yalu" epic.And on this basis,through philosophical thinking on the three questions of "where we come from" "who we are",and "where we are going",a Hmong aesthetic theory system with complete structure and theoretical tension is constructed from the metaphysical level,to make its own theoretical contribution to the study of Hmong aesthetics.