(A closer look at China) When visiting Tsinghua University, why did Xi Jinping talk about "beauty"?
China News Service, Beijing, April 20th, title: Visiting Tsinghua University, why does Xi Jinping talk about "beauty"?
Author Zhong Sanping
As the 110th anniversary of the founding of Tsinghua University is approaching, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission came to Tsinghua University for inspection on the 19th.
When visiting the special exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts in the first stop, he mentioned a word that everyone can feel-"beauty".
The predecessor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University was the Central Academy of Art and Design. It was China's first higher design and art academy and has developed into a major art education center in China over the years.
In recent years, the college has frequently gone abroad and walked at the forefront of international art, fine arts and design exchanges.
In this academic hall that is constantly creating beauty, Xi Jinping talked about "art" and "beauty."
He said that it is necessary to give play to the important role of fine arts in serving economic and social development, apply more fine arts and artistic elements to urban and rural planning and construction, enhance the aesthetic appeal and cultural taste of urban and rural areas, and better serve the people’s high level of artistic achievements. Quality of life needs.
From the high-speed rail, which represents the speed of urban development, to the “cultural wall” that reflects the spiritual outlook of the countryside, everything should be beautiful.
Injecting more "beauty" elements into urban and rural areas is a rigid need for China's development.
The power of art lies in making China more "beautiful".
Although "what is beauty" has always been a complex issue in aesthetics, ordinary people also have intuitive and specific emotional experience of "beauty".
When they see beautiful things, people often appreciate them from the heart and even admire them from the bottom of their hearts.
Discovering beauty, understanding beauty, pursuing beauty, and integrating the spirit of beauty into daily life can also shape the beauty of the soul.
As Xi Jinping once said, "The highest state of art is to make people tempted, let people's souls undergo baptism, and let people discover the beauty of nature, life, and soul."
A more "beautiful" China will also "share the beautiful" with the world.
Xi Jinping said that it is necessary to enhance cultural self-confidence, use the United States as the medium, and strengthen international cultural exchanges.
Throughout the history of human civilization, there is no distinction between races, national borders and even continents and oceans in the appreciation of beauty.
In 1987, 20 magnificent glazed wares were unearthed in the underground palace of Famen Temple in Shaanxi Province. These are glazed wares from Eastern Rome and Islam introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty. In recent years, Chinese scholars have gone to Honduras for archeology and discovered the local "Moon God hugging rabbit" carving It looks like the "Chang'e Jade Rabbit" familiar to the Chinese. This unexpected "resonance" is motivating more people to participate in the mutual learning of civilizations on different continents.
Enclosed with exquisite art is culture and civilization.
Over the years, Xi Jinping has visited many countries and places to exchange his views with people.
He has visited the Louvre in France and the Palace Museum in China. He believes that “they hold thousands of art treasures, and what attracts people’s attention is the fruits of their diverse civilizations”; he has visited the Chiqin, which represents ancient Mayan civilization. Itza, who also visited the ancient city of Samarkand in Central Asia with a strong Islamic civilization, felt that "to understand the true meaning of various civilizations, we must uphold an attitude of equality and humility."
He said that we should seek wisdom and nourishment from different civilizations, provide people with spiritual support and spiritual comfort, and work together to solve the various challenges faced by mankind.
The vitality of beauty lies in crossing time and space and enlightening the soul.
Xi Jinping announced today at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia 2021 annual meeting that China will host the second Asian Civilization Dialogue after the epidemic is brought under control, and play an active role in promoting the dialogue between Asian civilizations and the world.
As far as the world is concerned, letting each other's beauty fully demonstrate mutual integration will also help build a more harmonious, inclusive, harmonious and different future.
(End) (Photo source: Xinhua News Agency’s official website of Tsinghua University)