Although I live in the suburbs, I often go to town because of my studies. Therefore, I have a panoramic view of the glitz of this city. Urban glitz: Many buildings, signboards and streets are carefully designed, so they are flashy, artificial and not simple. Specifically, there are many large glass walls (or floor-to-ceiling windows) facing the street, carefully designed facade signs (these signs are usually made of high-grade materials, and the words on the signs are usually three-dimensional), sidewalks paved with high-grade or modern tiles (or the floors and platforms of squares), beautifully decorated restaurants and small shops, and so on. All these show the affectation and glitz of the city.
The city is flashy, and so are the people in the city. Cosmetics, fashion and jewelry often have a big market among urban people. At present, commercial housing is also a hot thing for urban people. Now there are many commodity buildings, belonging to high-grade residential areas, with good housing appearance and residential landscape design. An acquaintance of mine lives in an upscale community, where there is a landscape pool made of black marble, with bright stainless steel railings next to the pool, elevators in the building, bright pale yellow tiles on the walls and floors of elevator rooms on each floor, and glass doors on every unit in the building ... All this looks so flashy that I am bored. Another big hobby of urbanites is to decorate rooms, which fully reflects their mentality of taking decoration as beauty. At present, the aesthetic value of "taking decoration as beauty" has penetrated into almost every corner of society, and the popularity of interior design, clothing design, advertising design, architectural design and other industries has fully confirmed this point. At that time, people paid attention to decoration, making "simplicity" almost a rare thing. I don't like shopping because I can hardly find a really simple dress in the mall now. Nowadays, there are very flamboyant, avant-garde and fancy clothes in shopping malls, which is what we often call "strange clothes"; There are also some clothes, although not fancy, but their exquisite design and foreign style still seem flashy and artificial; In addition, there are many "simple" styles of clothes in shopping malls now, but I know that this "simple" style is not really simple, because these simple styles of clothes, like all other fashions, exude a secular and impetuous modern urban atmosphere. The real simplicity is completely incompatible with these smells.
At present, the reasons for the formation of human psychology of "taking decoration as beauty" are inconclusive and need further study by relevant experts and scholars. But we need to know: but all decorations are artificial, and artificial is "fake". The meaning of the word "false" is artificial, which is far from the truth. Don't say "moderately pay attention to decoration", because no matter what decoration is used, no matter how much, its "pseudo" will not change, and the aesthetic feeling brought by "pseudo" things can only be "pseudo-beauty", not true beauty. Only simplicity is natural and true, and it is true beauty. Only by removing the false and retaining the true. Only by staying away from decoration and returning to simplicity can we return to truth and nature.