Therefore, to approach this issue, we must recognize that as graduate students, your most vital role lies precisely in confronting difficulties when formulating questions—you must embrace that vibrant, life-affirming confusion. Once this confusion arises, your ability to decipher meaning simultaneously takes root—and that is profoundly important. The aesthetic code within the Book of Changes is, in essence, the code of our very lives.
Today, when we speak of aesthetics, and when the nation promotes aesthetic education—mandating courses in basic education such as calligraphy, fine arts, and music—we are engaging in aesthetic education through these means. Aesthetic education serves three core functions: first, cultivating aesthetic appreciation; second, nurturing moral sentiment; and third, enriching the spirit. Though we divide it into three functions, fundamentally, it is one. For what we have lost today is not material wealth, but the depth of our lives.
You might say, “But I am alive.” To be alive—as in Yu Hua’s novel To Live—is to exist by a thread. Survival itself demands immense willpower, which leads us to question the very meaning of life. It is through these three functions of aesthetic education that we seek answers within the Book of Changes.
This, of course, is no simple task. The Book of Changes—Yi—means simplicity. But this simplicity is not the kind we casually grasp in our hands. It is not so easy. This simplicity is a simplified essence, and it is through this lens that we must comprehend it.
Courses like “Calligraphy Aesthetics” or “Book of Changes Aesthetics” are not casually offered. We design them precisely to confront such profound challenges.
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