Beauty is a disaster, beauty can be defeated, playthings will be discouraged, and artistic costumes are elegant.

So, we sat in the classroom and read the book of sages in the new era. Until one day, when the plum blossom first bloomed, someone kicked it away and photographed the touching moment when the petals were raining.

Everyone was deeply disappointed and denounced one after another: why do you have no pity for jade in the face of the newly baked delicate flowers?

What makes our hearts so rough, so rough that we can no longer appreciate the flowers and flowers? Rough only cares about gains and losses, calculating whether the stock market will fall or rise?

Everyone has a love of beauty. Newborn babies still like a gentle and beautiful face. But why is our perception of beauty getting lower and lower after more than ten years of school education? We can't appreciate music, we can't read poetry, we can write crooked words and laugh at Van Gogh's Sunflower, which is just graffiti. We study for exams so hard that we don't even have time to look up at the sky, let alone read a classic book quietly. It's a waste of life. In this way, we gradually turned our hearts into deserts.

Whose fault is this?

How many art appreciation classes did we have from elementary school to high school? Chinese classes are often occupied by standard answers and central ideas. When we are teenagers, it is time to cultivate our perception of beauty. Our withered hearts are so looking forward to the nourishment of beautiful things, but no one tells us about painting and music, let alone architecture, clothing, flower arrangement, Go and tea art.

And these are just the keys to shaping a beautiful mind. We are too busy and tired, and the teachers' urging, parents' expectations and academic pressure are unbearable. And art is the habitat for us to find ourselves and empty our hearts. Think about it, have we ever been moved by a song? Will we secretly write down the complete lyrics in our diaries? "For the mother's smile, for the harvest of the earth, why not be afraid of romantic love?" "I won't regret going to that dream place if I am wrong." "I didn't live in vain and I didn't feel tired." "Put aside my troubles and stride forward bravely, and I will stand in the center of the stage."

This is an instinct, because our hearts need comfort, and we have too many emotions, which can't be covered up by doing problems and exams. However, nobody cares. When you hear the guzheng flowing in the mountains and rivers, are you moved by that kind of spiritual fit, and hope that you can be lucky to meet your bosom friend on the road? When you hear Beethoven's Symphony of Destiny, are you shocked by the clear, steady and powerful percussion music, and suddenly have a lofty spirit of not giving in to fate?

Of course, no one brought us near. We are like blind people touching an elephant. Although we can't touch the whole picture, at least we can get a glimpse. If we can't touch it, we may miss it forever.

When we listened to "Moonlit Night on a Spring River", did the quiet and soothing guzheng music bring you to the seaside where the moon was born, and let you see the beautiful scenery of "flowers and trees are like cymbals in the moonlight", and think of the acacia that has been in my heart for thousands of years?

However, some people confidently asked the teacher loudly, what's the use of reciting "Moonlit Night on a Spring River"? It is not the dictation scope of the college entrance examination.

Therefore, it is difficult for us to understand Miaoyu's view on tea in A Dream of Red Mansions. We think she is pretentious, pretentious. Why did she sweep the snow on the plum blossom to make tea? Is this tea delicious? Where is the scientific basis?

It is even more difficult for us to understand the artistic conception of "there is a ray of green in the old bottle, a touch of red in the quiet stove, a piece of snow outside and a glass of wine inside". Then why bother? Simply and rudely send a text message "Dude, have a drink, there is dog meat here".

Someone traveled to Japan and met a tea teacher in a middle school. He burned incense, played music and washed tea in a quiet room and asked in amazement, "What's the use of teaching students these things?"

Yes, we are complacent. We are doing useful things, taking the postgraduate entrance examination, striving for the first place and having a bright future. This is the greatest cause in the world. But I don't know, in our useful education, what we lose is great use.

We not only gave up aesthetic education in class, but also drifted away from it in campus life.

Look at our school uniforms, sportswear is enough, cuffs and trouser legs need to be sewn inside, for next year's growth. So there are no wide legs and big sleeves, and there is a Taoist fairy wind. Even if it is ugly and inferior in quality, it will fade into the water. Maybe before the fitting day, I had worn my knee and was thrown into the trash can.

Children are required to wear such clothes. How do they perceive the beauty of clothes? Wouldn't it be better to set off people's good mental outlook with decent clothes, novel design and youthful spirit? Appropriate clothes will make people unconsciously love and respect themselves and have higher requirements and expectations for themselves. Will students be more energetic in such school uniforms? And educators are worried that students are too beautiful and have bad ideas, hehe. The reality is that this idea has not been banned, but the perception of beauty has gradually disappeared. Therefore, as far as the line of sight is concerned, it is not surprising that students who wear this kind of clothes are often dumbfounded and confused.

The collocation of pictures and texts in our textbooks has stubbornly maintained the same taste for many years, and there is no artistic design or aesthetic feeling at all. You can tell it's an old work at a glance. How can people have the desire to read and explore? Think of a song "How can this keep up with the times, keep up with the trend and attract contemporary young people?"

Our school always hangs inspirational sayings such as "I jump on books like a hungry person on bread", or such thrifty warnings as "a porridge and a meal are hard to come by".

Many of our teachers are always in a hurry with books between their arms. Maybe they forgot to comb their hair, maybe they forgot to shine their shoes, wore outdated clothes and looked sallow, showing their noble style of hard work and plain living. Occasionally, beautifully dressed female teachers are suspected of doing nothing, poor teaching ability and uneasy education.

This is the content of our students' study, and it is also their daily contact environment. They grew up in it. How can you expect them to suddenly become tasteful of art and have awe, pity and respect for beauty after graduation?

We don't know the art of leaving blank space, we don't know the importance of reflecting on life alone in the face of the soul, we don't know the soothing effect of art on the soul, we don't know that educating people is agriculture, planting seeds and waiting for flowers to bloom is a miracle of life, but we use a whip to urge this education factory to produce finished products of the same size at once.

We may enroll our children in art, calligraphy, dance and music classes, but that's more in the hope that they can find another way out when they don't do well in the exam.

We ignore beauty, but say that children don't understand beauty. Beauty seems vague, but only when a person has beauty in his heart can he have elegant temperament, cherish beauty, love beauty and create beauty.

Walking into our classroom, you will find books everywhere, homework rolled in the corner, tables and chairs crooked, brooms lying around.

When we opened the office, there were piles of rubbish and stains behind the door, but everyone turned a deaf ear and still enjoyed themselves here and learned the knowledge of saints.

Look at the buildings on our street. They are all the same and have no creativity. No matter what green city, chrysanthemum city and Yangcheng seem to be similar.

On the bus and subway, there are often modern girls gloating over the phone, no one is watching and talking loudly. Even though light makeup is always appropriate, the swearing words blurted out are disgusting. But do you think it's all her fault?

Once upon a time, we were a poetic nation, with the generosity and heroism of "the green willow in the guest house is new in color" and "returning the fragrance after death". The serenity and elegance of "understanding Luo Shang lightly and going to Lanzhou alone" and the loneliness and sadness of "three or two bananas outside the curtain, people can't help but stay at night". We have Lu Yu's Tea Classic, which talks about "three flavors before you can be tempted", and we have Han's poem "My heart hangs in the sky without polishing", which is detached and full of warmth.

In Six Chapters of a Floating Life, Yunniang planted flowers on a wooden frame and made a flower wall that can be moved at any time, which is amazing.

"Little Window" and "Forget the Rock Before Drunk" are full of dust regardless of gains and losses.

There is a saying in Shadow of Dreams that "the so-called beauty should take flowers as its posture, birds as its voice, the moon as its god, dimensions as its posture, jade as its bone, ice and snow as its skin, autumn water as its posture and poetry as its heart." It seems that cosmetic snake face is popular now.

Zhuangzi said: "Everyone knows what is useful, but I don't know what is useless." Perhaps, reading poems, listening to music, learning tea ceremony and visiting art galleries can't make us get immediate results, but it can help us cultivate a delicate and gentle mind, know how to cherish, appreciate the gains and losses of life, watch the ups and downs of life, let us win without arrogance and lose with grace, and have a quiet and indifferent state of mind regardless of success or failure.

Appreciating beauty makes us more tasteful and elegant. It's really not just our responsibility to lack eyes to find beauty.

Aesthetic education, we are still lacking.