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Classic articles or aphorisms about the beauty of tragedy

The following is reproduced from the Chinese Writers Network, written by Buyi Ao Wanghou

The tearful "Two Springs Reflect the Moon" tells the tragic life of the blind man A Bing stained with blood and tears; Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, who "the more soldiers the better", did not escape the tragic ending of "the rabbit died and the dog was cooked". Looking back at history: the sorrow and indignation of Qu Zi sinking into the river, the tragedy of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, the sorrow and resentment of "Butterfly Lovers" turning into butterflies, the sorrow of cuckoo cries of blood...all are soul-stirring and unforgettable! In "The Injustice of Dou E", one of the four great tragedies of Yuan Dynasty dramas in my country, Dou E, who died after being wronged, made three major vows before her execution: blood spattered Bai Lian, snow fell in June, and there was a drought in Chuzhou for three years. come true. The tragic experience of a weak woman who shocked the world and wept ghosts and gods left us with multiple levels of spiritual shock and aesthetic thinking.

Tragic beauty is the highest form of aesthetic form. The contradictions and conflicts it expresses often end with the suppression of truth, goodness and beauty by falsehood, ugliness and evil, and the temporary overwhelming of new things by old forces. Only in this way can we create a life tension that becomes increasingly frustrated and exciting. Mr. Lu Xun said: "Tragedy destroys valuable things for people to see." When commenting on Lassalle's play "Sickingen", Engels pointed out: Tragedy is "the inevitable requirement of history and the actual impossibility of realizing this requirement." Tragic conflict. "The value of justice is doubled when it is denied. When a meteor falls, it shines most brightly. When beautiful things are destroyed, the warning to the world is particularly profound and powerful." "A general burns his body to become a sword, and a phoenix rises to nirvana to gain eternal life." - Compared with light-hearted comedies, the tragic flowers blooming in pools of blood and graveyards are particularly sad, cold, and thought-provoking!

On the social and historical stage, everyone cannot escape the reincarnation of tragedy or comedy, just as they cannot escape the alternation of light and darkness. The statue of Jigong in Xiyuan Temple in Huqiu, Jiangsu Province is very special: it looks like a crying figure when viewed from the left, and a smiling figure when viewed from the right. Crying and laughing are both my "two-faced man", which foreshadows the eternal theme of tragedy and comedy in life. Marshal Pétain, who saved the French nation in World War I, became the leader of the traitorous Vichy regime in World War II. Napoleon, a great hero who once boasted that he was "higher than the Alps", ended up imprisoned on the island of St. Helena. Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu who "pulled mountains and carried cauldrons", ended up screaming in the sky and killing himself with his sword in the battle of Gaixia. The beauty of tragedy is by no means simply a sigh of relief at the end of the hero. Broadly speaking, sublimity and greatness always have a strong tragic color: Michelangelo used a carving knife to carve tragedy; Leonardo da Vinci used colors to describe tragedy; Tchaikov Skye sang tragedy with notes; Shakespeare used words to describe tragedy; Beethoven used life to interpret tragedy... The ancient Greek mythology, praised by Marx as an "unattainable model" for artistic development, runs through the main theme of the beauty of tragedy. Chinese classical myths such as "The Communists Touched Buzhou Mountain in Anger" and "Kuafu Chasing the Sun" are full of the great spirit of sacrifice of "human childhood" to conquer nature. The history of the development of art at home and abroad has written the tragic beauty of bloody romance on the title page. Its style is so solemn and sublime, so sacred and pure!

“There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people.” Although people have different interpretations of the beauty of tragedy, they get the same baptism of souls from it. Be grateful for tragedy and suffering, because it is the whetstone that sharpens talents. Just as Taishi Ling Shi Ma Qian said: "King Wen was restrained and performed the "Book of Changes", Zhongniee wrote "Spring and Autumn"; Qu Yuan was exiled and wrote "Li Sao"; Zuoqiu lost his sight and wrote "Guoyu"; Sun Tzu cut off his feet. , "The Art of War"... "Poetry" has three hundred chapters, which are probably the works of sages and sages. "Tragedy is a spring thunder that wakes up the numb soul." The fight between the strong and the weak, the rape of the dark clouds over the city, the helplessness of the broken-winged bird, the fragility of the winter buds... human nature is tortured all the time. Tragedy promotes the continuous improvement of morality and beauty through "counter-evidence".

Yue Fei, the famous general who died in Fengbo Pavilion, has accumulated into the immortal admiration of "loyal bones are buried in the green mountains"; a wisp of loyal soul drifting away in the lonely ocean has been sublimated into the awe-inspiring righteousness of "loyalty shines in history"; Zhang Zhixin's severed throat is filled with unsent emotions that have never been released. The voice of the Communist Party of China embodies the beautiful demands and the same vision of democracy, legal system, and social harmony!