The Master's hand holding the scroll pointed at her, lifted it up, and motioned for her to continue.

Xiang Ye asked: "Master, what you learn from looking at paintings, is it painting skills or paintings?" ”

The Master replied, "It's both, but this class is more about appreciating." ”

Xiang Ye also said: "The so-called appreciation, in order to obtain a sense of cultivating the body and mind, to sublimate the character and mood through paintings, or is it limited to mastering the method of appreciation." ”

The Master said, "The ultimate goal is naturally the former, but if you don't learn how to appreciate it, what you appreciate will end up being vulgar." ”

Xiang Ye said: "Master, how to distinguish between vulgar and elegant? ”

The Master said, "Elegance means noble elegance and non-vulgar behavior. Vulgarity refers to banal tastes, languishing thoughts. ”

Xiang Ye said: "Xiang Ye doesn't understand, please give an example of advice." ”

The master sat down on the bookcase and put down the scroll in his hand: "It is like playing the piano is elegant, and dancing music is vulgar; Reading is elegant, fists and feet are vulgar; It is elegant to establish a life for the people, and it is customary to establish a life for oneself; For meritorious service is elegant, love for love is customary, in the end, it can be said that the gentleman is elegant, and the villain is vulgar. ”

Xiang Ye paused after listening, and then asked: "Master, if you play the piano with a beautiful sound, I am afraid that it will no longer be elegant; If the fists and feet serve the country and uphold justice, rather than doing evil by force, they should not be vulgar; Meritorious service can indeed benefit everyone, but if you do whatever it takes to achieve the goal of meritorious service, you are shaking the foundation of the country; It is harmful to only care about love without distinguishing between right and wrong, but if you can uphold morality and seek love, why not be beautiful? If reading is a matter of sticking to prejudices and only for fame, it will not be a vain reading, and it will also cause damage to "reading" itself. From this point of view, the key to the quality of the skill lies in the use; The purpose of learning is to exercise personality, from the inside out; Elegance is never simply a matter of coming and going or beautifying, otherwise it is just tarnishing elegance. ”

The Master was stunned for a moment, feeling unable to answer, and at that time, Xiang Ye was like a pen dipped in ink, poking a black hole in a blank piece of paper, and throwing off the dirty beauty. People are sometimes like the waterwheels in the river, which rotate every day, but they don't stop to think about what it is that I turn so transparently and without a fixed shape.

The master was silent for a while and then said, "Xiang Ye, although there is a special time you said, the sage will not arbitrarily set standards, it must be reasonable. What's more, if there is no standard, there is no country, and if there is no standard, there is no good and evil. ”

Xiang Ye smiled: "Master, I agree with what you said, if the country has no standards, it will not stand, and if people have no standards, they will be vulgar." But it cannot be denied that there is no standard that does not hide prejudices, but some are conducive to the development of people and countries, and some are hindering our pursuit of development and nobility. ”

Xiang Ye stood up and said: "Master, taking today's painting as an example, you said that the painting 'Jiangxia' is transcendent and elegant, and you see Guihong, frost and smoke, a river of autumn water and a tenacious tree, because you understand the life of 'Jiangxia', and compare the poems made by 'Jin Xie' for this painting, and want to teach us to temper our minds, so you make this explanation. Tan Shi said that this painting is a tired bird returning to the forest, a tired person returning home, seeing cooking smoke and amusement, but it is his own unique income from looking at the painting. Moreover, 'Jiangxia' grew up in the mountains with his mother since he was a child, and lived with the mountains and rivers every day. ”

"There is never only one interpretation of a painting, and no one explanation is completely true. Appreciation is first and foremost a perception, and beauty and ugliness are endowed with reality. We need this truth, but we must not negate all perception for it. ”

The Master was silent, perhaps thinking, perhaps worried.

The scholars were silent because they were taught something because of their age.

Tan Shi was silent, no one paying attention to his eyes in front of the bookcase at the back of the school.

It was at this time that "Schelling" walked in and saved a beach of fish that had washed up on the shore.

"Xie Lin" waved at the master in the hall and spoke: "Sir, Xiang Ye still has homework today, please let me take her away first." ”

The Master hurriedly got up and returned the salute and said, "Yes, yes." ”

Xiang Ye followed Xie Lin out of the school and walked to the "Shixiang Street" with the most restaurants.

When the night market was first established, the "Top Ten Restaurants" on this street had different styles and were full of seats every night, from which the "Shixiang Street" got its name. To the present day, several have declined and several have merged. Nowadays, it is popular to eat and drink on the street stalls, and the small restaurants have developed rapidly, and there are now three or five famous restaurants, among which the most powerful and popular ones belong to "Baibao Zhai" and "Ugly Leaky Building".

Walking on the street, Xie Lin asked Xiang Ye: "Do you want to break the siege before you talk to your master?" ”

Xiang Ye said, "No. At first, I didn't ask, because I was timid and isolated, so I didn't ask; Later, if you don't ask, you know that you are asking in vain, so why ask; Today's question is not my question, but a book's question. ”

Xie Lin did not speak, his pace remained unchanged, and he continued to walk until he reached the door of Baibaozhai.

Xie Lin handed her an iron swirling flower and said, "There is a 'Piano Hunting Conference' here today, you can go in by yourself." ”

Xiang Ye took the little iron flower, and when he saw him turn around to leave, he asked him: "Master, why is the place where 'Hundred Treasures Gather' called 'Zhai', and the place where you want to 'leak' is called 'Lou'?" ”

Schelling replied: "The conventional idea is a table, and it is true to put it aside." The hair of the animal is to protect the body for better hunting, as you just said that the question is asked by the 'book'. ”

The hand under the sleeve of Xiang Ye unconsciously clenched, and it hurt a little from the tip of the iron flower before letting go, and then look, Xie Lin had already walked away.

Xiang Ye didn't stand at the door for long before he was greeted by the guy.

The so-called "Piano Hunting Conference" means that after each piano is played by the same person, everyone bids for the piano.

Xiang Ye sat until the end, the more he listened, the more unhappy he became, and none of them could catch his eye. She put the silver on the table and walked out with a cold face.

I wanted to go home, but when I walked out of a section, I saw that the "Ugly Leaky Building" also hung a big wooden sign, which read, "Qiaosai gives treasures".

Xiang Ye walked to the door and asked the guy, "Is there a piano in the treasure?" ”

The man said, "Oh, girl, I really don't know." Except for the 'shopkeeper' in our building, no one in the building knows what the last treasure is. ”

He stepped into the door, leaned over and saw that the sign had not been removed, and said, "The baby is still there at this time, and no one has cleared the customs." Girl, if you're interested, you can try it. Except for the last 'big baby', every time you pass a level, there is a courtesy. ”

Xiang Ye used to come to this street to play, at that time, there was a family among the playmates who had something to do with "Baibao Zhai", and most of them ate there, and then they didn't like to go out, so they naturally came less.

Thinking that although she had been here for tea in the past few years, she had never eaten, so she decided to stay a little longer, play casually and go back.

"Five taels of silver to break through, are you crazy?"

Xiang Ye was halfway upstairs when he heard someone "shouting".

She thought to herself: "Five taels, don't break in." ”

When she got to the second floor, she was replaced by a gentle girl in blue to take her, she thought she was going to a private room, but unexpectedly, this girl took her back to the bridge carved out on the second floor.

I used to come to drink tea, mostly sitting in the private room on the street, although I knew that the "ugly leaky building" was divided into the main building and the side building, the main building was in front and the side building was in the back, but the side building was rumored to be for people to live in, but I didn't expect it to be used to set up a checkpoint today.

She was about to tell the girl that she would not participate, but suddenly she heard a piano sound from the other building, and the girl in blue had retreated to the main building, and closed the door, and she was the only one on the bridge.

She smiled, there is no child who does not love novelty and adventure, and since it is "for her", how can it not be justified?

Behind the ugly leakage building, there is a courtyard that is enclosed, the yard is planted with bamboo, look at it on the bridge, the rockery under the bamboo is too small, like a stone in general, the bamboo grows tall, but the leaves are not too much, the straight seedlings are rustling and blowing.

Xiang Ye entered the side building, the first sight saw a picture of caryophyllum under the moon, unexpectedly, the cloud painting is excellent, and dyed, a little strong and quiet, more thin and hazy.

Xiang Ye walked in and saw four "boxes" on the table on the left, and an "old man" with gray hair standing behind the table.

She asked, "You just played the piano?" ”

The old man shook his head, pointed to the box, and said, "It's the piano it plays." ”

Xiang Ye glanced at the box: "That's interesting." ”

The old man said, "Come here, it's not brains, it's luck." ”

Xiang Ye didn't move, but turned his head, looked out the window on the right, and said with a smile: "I'm a person who never likes to gamble on other people's brains with the luck I don't have. ”

The old man also smiled: "Choose one and take it back, if you must ask, Xie Lin should be able to give you the answer." ”

Xiang Ye still didn't move, but looked straight into the old man's eyes, and she asked, "Who are you?" ”

The old man said, "My surname is Gui." The family lives in the flower field, and occasionally gets the pity of the goddess. ”

Xiang Ye's brows did not furrow obviously, but the lower half of his lips shrank a little inward, and he did not speak.

Seeing this, Liuyue sneered: "In the lower realm, one or two talk and do things, and they are very twisted." ”