"Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin, Western Han, Eastern Han, Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, Eastern Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Liao, Song, Xia, Jin, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic of China, China people * * and Guo", this is a junior high school history class, and the history teacher before class. Reading the book "The Course of Beauty" made me make a grand trip of beauty from the artistic point of view and follow the historical trend, from distant ancient times to modern times.

Although this book is not very relevant to the major, I believe that reading it can help everyone learn rare nutrition from it. When I was in high school, I chose the direction of science, but our class teacher always warned us that we must have a certain understanding of history in order to increase our knowledge and improve our quality. And this time I chose the book "The Course of Beauty", which really benefited me a lot. Mr. Feng Youlan commented on this book as follows: "The Course of Beauty is a great book (it should be said that it is several great books), a history of aesthetics and art in China, a history of literature in China, a history of philosophy in China and a history of culture in China." It seems impossible for these kinds of history books in the evaluation to be condensed into a book with hundreds of thousands of words, nor can they be regarded as "long speeches", but "A Beautiful Course" has done it. Such a book can only be completed by high flyers, who graduated from the philosophy department of Peking University, and Mr. Li Zehou, who is also a philosopher and aesthetician.

Indeed, the achievements of this book can be said to be rare. "A strategically placed building is like a broken bamboo, which can achieve the goal of' lasting forever and not leaking'. The fine place is fine, and the lingering place is logical. In the seemingly casual tour, it is natural to touch the spiritual history of an ancient civilization. It's no big deal, but it can't be done. " This is Mr. Yi Zhongtian's evaluation of this book, which can really be said to be unremarkable and brilliant. I remember when I found this book in the bookstore, I opened the catalogue and was shocked by the extraordinary title. From dragon and phoenix dance, bronze gluttony, to Wei and Jin demeanor, the world of Buddha, to the voice of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the meaning beyond rhyme and so on. While summarizing the contents of this chapter, these subheadings are full of cultural atmosphere and intoxicating. In this book, there is a cadenza every few pages. From a large number of pictures and ancient books of the earliest totem culture to poems quoted in the heyday of culture, the author built a beautiful temple for us on the basis of examples. In fact, The Course of Beauty itself can be regarded as a work of art, which gives us a deep understanding of the artistic skill and accomplishment of the author Li Zehou.

As the only country among the four ancient civilizations, ancient China never lost its culture, and naturally it never stopped pursuing beauty. Of course, the beauty here refers not only to the external beauty, but also to a wide range, including all kinds of beauty in the whole nature such as graphics, language and characters. The History of Beauty is divided into ten chapters. In chronological order, each chapter tells the development of artistic style or genre in an important period, which is clear at a glance, which is convenient for readers to focus on the aesthetics of a specific period, such as "Wei and Jin demeanor", which was one of the focuses of Chinese teachers' lectures last semester. It can be said that this book is not only a work about art history, but also focuses on the appreciation and analysis of a specific work. Instead, it organically links the whole historical process of aesthetics, art and human beings with the aesthetic view of anthropological ontology, reveals the functions and influences of various social factors on aesthetics and art, and makes a general analysis and explanation on the overall development of China's classical literature and art.

"Beauty" is a "meaningful form", which was put forward by clive bell, and the main ideas of this book were formally developed and perfected from this angle. In Bell's view, "meaningful form" depends on whether it can arouse "aesthetic emotion", and aesthetic emotion comes from "meaningful form". However, Mr. Li Zehou thinks that Bell's view is "caught in a circular argument", so on the basis of Bell's view, Mr. Li Zehou develops it into a "natural form with social content accumulation", which overcomes the limitations of this theory. In this book, the beauty described by the author is not only admirable, but also thought-provoking, and the society and human nature are thought-provoking through short stories.