The true beauty of human beings is a kind of demeanor and temperament, and it is the presentation of their individual lives. Wang Anshi's poem describing Wang Zhaojun said that "you can't draw from the source of meaning". In other words, the beauty of a woman is not her five senses in essence, but the vivid presentation of her spiritual character, which permeates and expresses in her gestures and verbal expressions, so "painting is impossible." This kind of "beauty" that can't be painted is what we often call personal demeanor. The beauty of human beings is based on the harmony between man and nature and between body and mind. In the traditional culture of China, the spiritual connotation of "beauty" is particularly emphasized and highlighted, thus giving birth to and highlighting the poetry of "beauty". "Smiling skillfully and looking forward to happiness with beautiful eyes" is the "beauty" described in The Book of Songs, a great beauty, Mrs. Zhuang Jiang. This kind of beauty, amorous feelings, endless implications. Can it be measured by any scale and can be compared with any "beauty on the operating table"?
The aesthetic concept dominated by traditional culture emphasizes "God" rather than "Form". "Painting a beauty's face is beautiful and unpleasant; Meng Ben's eyes are big but not afraid, and the monarch is dead. " (Huai Nan Zi, Volume 16) "Xing Junzhe" is the spirit that dominates the image, and "beauty" without spirit is lifeless. However, the current consumer culture pays too much attention to form and despises spirit in aesthetics, and uses mechanical and modular quantitative standards to measure a person's "beauty" (such as the so-called "three courts and five eyes" standard used in cosmetic surgery). This is no longer "judging people by appearances", but "judging people by numbers": judging and shaping people's images with abstract dimensions.
At present, there is an abnormal competitive orientation of "valuing form over spirit" and "judging people by appearances" in many professional fields, and many young people's aesthetic pursuit has been forced into the misunderstanding of "taking risks for beauty". These cosmetic medical accidents are undoubtedly distressing social tragedies. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job in the education and cultivation of young people's aesthetics in the mass cultural environment, so that young people can understand and cherish beauty on the basis of dialectical understanding of the relationship between body and mind, nature and technology, personality and society, and have a healthy and beautiful aesthetic orientation on the road of pursuing beauty.