Aesthetic Meditation Facing The Skull

A skeleton,the skeleton or skull of a dead person.It is the last remnant of the body and a direct witness of death.Tracing back the long history of human beings,archaeology has found that many civilizations in the world have traces of the custom of hunting heads,and China is no exception.The discovery of remains such as head burials,rock paintings and ground paintings has proved the skull worship of ancient humans.Different from the numerous skull churches,skull houses and skull monuments in the west,skeletons have been taboo and ignored in Chinese cultural traditions for a long time.It gives a sense of foreboding and impurity.Even so,the skeleton,which is unpopular in the real world,shines in the palace of literature and art,and occupies a place among human aesthetic objects.From the beginning of the fable when Zhuangzi came across a skull,the literary models of The Skull Dream and the sigh to skulls became the basis of continuous rewriting and rewriting by later generations of literati.In modern society,the skeleton has become a symbol of humor and absurdity,and is favored by modern artists.This paper discusses the aesthetic connotation of skull in terms of the cultural history connotation and the transmutation of literary image.First,sort out the transmutation of the meaning of "skull" in the east and west culture.The image of skull has undergone great changes in the history of culture,from a horrible symbol of sorcery to a memorial object with a sense of religious ritual,and then to the "cool" cultural representative whose personality is highlighted now.Secondly,it expounds the changes of "skull" and its related literary modes,such as "Zhuangzi laments skull" and "Zhuangzi meets a skull" in the history of literature,and probes into the connotation of the image of skull.Finally,summarize the core aesthetic connotation of "skull".The rebellious nature of the skull broadens its entrance into the palace of literature and art,and as a metaphorical expression of the hidden pain of life,the image of the skull also carries the pain of society and individuals.The story of the past by the skeleton as a carrier,like a ghost in front of people.In a sense,skeletons and fallen flowers are cast the same gaze.It also implies loss and grief,and is also a classic aesthetic image of death.The skull is the arrow of the past,in the hands of Hamlet,it is the history,the past speaker,is to entice the hero to recall and think,enrich his ups and down the sensitive heart of the important props.Falling flowers are the sign of the future,the petals of the fall directly leads to Lin daiyu "red incensebroken who pity" the tears asked,let the reader as if personally,more specifically feel the woman's life experience sigh,with beautiful sadness directly hit the heart.Nostalgia is the combination of sadness and beauty.It is the poetry of pathos.