A new life is about to begin, and this time our curriculum is more specialized, mostly related to linguistics and pedagogy. The shadow of the course "Introduction to Linguistics" still exists in my heart, which also forces me to work hard to complete the new semester and never dare to take a nap in class again.

In our course, there is a course called Introduction to Aesthetics. I'm also curious about why many of the courses I was given by the school ended with an introduction. Or do they know that our "worst class of students" can't learn something deep?

The teacher is a male teacher in his thirties with glasses, who looks like a northerner, but when he talks angrily, he has a soft and slender feeling of a southerner, and he looks a little like Huazi. In fact, our understanding of this course is to be better "aesthetic" in the future, and it is the beginning of a new semester, so everyone listened very carefully at the beginning.

As the boy closest to the teacher's position, I am naturally an important object of the gardener's hard work, and the teacher's eyes always fall on me when he lectures. The teacher introduced us to aesthetics as a secondary discipline of philosophy, then asked us what philosophy is, what are the Chinese philosophical classics, and then talked about Taoism. This piqued my interest, and when I was a child, I memorized the Tao Te Ching, and this time it was finally useful. The teacher asked us what Taoism is and what Taoist classics are. According to my speculation, everyone should be familiar with "Getaway", but there was no sound under the podium, so I immediately raised my hand and constantly sent a facial signal of "I know I know" to the teacher. Of course, I was naturally given the opportunity to perform.

I answered the teacher's questions fluently, but my goal has not been achieved, so I have to show off my ability to recite the Tao Te Ching. It was what I wanted to do, and the teacher asked me if I knew what the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching was about. I was so excited that I couldn't control myself, I knew the first chapter by heart, and I didn't miss the notes. "It's a good way, it's a very good way. The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. None, the beginning of the world. Yes, the mother of all things...... "For fear of being interrupted by the teacher, I spit out all the words in my memory as quickly as possible." The teacher was a little surprised by my performance, perhaps he had long been accustomed to lifeless university classes, and it was very rare to interact like this now, and after giving me the word "talent", he continued his course with great interest. And I was infinitely satisfied because of my vanity, and I was also full of gratitude to the teacher.

"What is beauty?" This is the most common phrase that teachers say in class. Every time the class fell into a dull state, he suddenly came up with this sentence. What is Beauty? I was lost in thought. For us, it is beauty that can make us feel comfortable, what can make our hearts surge, and what can make our blood expand. There is beautiful scenery as far as the eye can see, and there is beauty in the heart. And a 20-year-old single dog like me, the most beautiful thing is her, everything else is just a foil, no matter how beautiful she is......

"Beauty is an aesthetic image." What the? Isn't that a sick sentence? After all, I studied linguistics, and my first reaction to what the teacher said was to analyze the sentence structure. Beauty is an adjective, imagery is a noun, and aesthetics is an action. If it is according to the teacher's meaning, then isn't this sentence an infinite loop? Does this sentence make sense?

Just when I was still confused by the teacher's words, he said something that subverted my worldview: ugliness is also a kind of beauty, a kind of morbid beauty, a distorted beauty, and sometimes ugliness is also an aesthetic.

Ugly is also beautiful? When I heard this, I thought of Mr. Liu, and habitually turned his head to the back row. Mr. Liu has a kind of confidence in his appearance that is incomprehensible to ordinary people, once he said that he has smooth and delicate skin like a baby, and he had to let Lin Ye touch his face, wanting to prove that what he said was true. At first, Lin Ye was naturally reluctant in every way, and at that time, Mr. Liu had some pimples on his face, especially on his nose, which was a little red and purple and even had white secretions. In the end, under the temptation of Mr. Liu's cup of milk tea, Lin Ye gave in, his face was full of disgust and carefully touched his skin with his hands. I should have captured this passionate moment so that it could be a good memory for us.

After touching Mr. Liu's face, Lin Ye immediately retracted his hand like an electric shock, praising Mr. Liu's good skin, delicate, silky and shiny, and then turned around and quickly wiped his hands with a tissue with a disgusted face, his heart was full of regret: for a cup of milk tea, he actually sold his "body" and "soul". Later, Lin Ye always talked about Mr. Liu's appearance, comparing him to the water monster in Tianchi in Changbai Mountain and Mao Wen in "Warcraft Battlefield".

The girls in the class seemed to be on the same page as me, and they all snickered and turned to the back seats of the classroom, intending to "aesthetically ize" together. However, only a few other boys in the back row were snickering in tacit understanding. What they don't know is that Mr. Liu has asked the teacher for leave to participate in the language training before studying abroad this semester, and I remember that he only appeared on the make-up exam and the first day of school. The girls usually sit in the front, so they don't notice whether Mr. Liu is in the classroom, and they will only find out that he is missing when the teacher rolls him, but they basically think that he is just late or left early.

The aesthetics teacher was always speechless, and while I was still reshaping my worldview, he struck another fatal blow: what is this? Is it beauty? It's not absurd, it's meaningless.

Finally, I finally understood why aesthetics was listed as a secondary discipline of philosophy, and if I didn't have some philosophical thinking and realm, I really couldn't understand what the teacher said. I couldn't help but start worrying about my final exam, and if it was still a closed-book exam like Introduction to Linguistics, then I was basically done. Fortunately, after taking a reassuring pill from the senior sister of the junior year, this course is an open-book exam, and under normal circumstances, it is to write a paper to express your own opinions, and no one will fail the course.

Since Huazi looks very similar to the teacher, he naturally became the object of our whole dormitory and even the boys in the next class. And Huazi is also very cooperative, every time he will learn from the teacher's appearance and coldly give us a sentence "What is beauty?" At the same time, what the teacher said in class gradually became our mantra after class. When we go to the cafeteria to eat, we will say that what we eat is not food, but absurd, meaningless. When we go to an Internet café, we say that it is not the Internet, but absurd, and meaningless. In fact, it took me a long time to understand the true meaning of this sentence.

In addition, we also have a new understanding of "beauty", after all, we are people who have studied aesthetics, so we must learn how to "aesthetics", and therefore our eyes appear particularly bright on campus.