In the history of China's aesthetics, it was Zhuangzi who first put forward the aesthetic principle of "morbid beauty".

Foot-binding is the first thing in morbid aesthetics, which is hard for people to accept today, but people before the Qing Dynasty regarded it as beauty. Li Yu of A Qing Dynasty also taught people how to enjoy foot binding in Suiyuan. Most of the men in A Dream of Red Mansions have feminine beauty. And women have a morbid beauty. Jia Baoyu is like a girl and Lin Daiyu is like a patient, which is the aesthetic interest pursued by China people in culture.

There are also daily scenes to play. Bonsai must be bent, the more twists and turns, the more delicious it is. When you grow straight, you lose your charm, so you can't call it scenery. Goldfish should have protruding eyes. The bigger the eyes, the bigger the belly, and the better it looks. Beijing court dog, also known as Jingba, is said to be the product of consanguineous marriage and a deformed pet.

Ma Weidou gave a theoretical explanation of "morbid beauty". He divided the aesthetics of China people into four levels, which were pyramid-shaped: gaudy beauty, implicit beauty, melodramatic beauty and morbid beauty on the spire. He said: "When aesthetics reaches the top of the pyramid, as long as it enters the' morbid' level, it will be inverted pyramid-shaped, suddenly released and then become the most popular thing."

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Sickness not only exists in China's aesthetics, but also abroad. The famous sculpture Venus with a broken arm embodies a kind of incomplete beauty. It is said that this sculpture was originally complete. Later, the sculptor always felt something was wrong, so he took off his arm. It is precisely because of the loss of her arms that she is no longer a jealous beauty god in mythology, but a pure, noble and elegant woman, a real beauty god. Ballet, you don't have to jump with your feet, you have to jump with your toes. And the world-famous Thai shemale.