Chapter 64 Great beauty is speechless

In 2002, when I went to Venice to participate in the Architecture Biennale, Fang Zhenning, an architectural critic, introduced to me that the Nikon D100 is the best camera, which can be equipped with an ordinary lens on the body of a digital camera.I went back to Beijing to inquire, but I didn't have this camera, so I finally bought it in Hong Kong. This camera is the ideal camera in my mind.No waste of film, it is digital; no waste of battery, no pollution to the environment, it is a rechargeable battery; ordinary lens can be used, and the response speed is very fast.The most important thing is that for me, a layman, it has a large storage capacity, and I can take pictures casually, and delete and modify them on the computer at night.My photography skills are bad, but my Photoshop skills are good.This played to my strengths and avoided my weaknesses.I have always had this camera in my carry-on bag ever since.

With this camera, I realized that what I see with my eyes is unreal. These things pass through my brain and mix my emotions and past memories into the images.With this camera, I realized how beautiful and important sunlight is. No artificial light source can compare to sunlight, especially the morning glow and evening afterglow. The knowledge in books is important, they are the summary of laws and experiences in real life, but the knowledge in books is far from enough, people's understanding of the world is only the tip of the iceberg, there are still many unknown areas waiting for us to explore excavate.If you only abstract the world into the knowledge in books, and think that this is the whole world and life, and memorize it by rote, while ignoring the real world around you, such a person will only be a "nerd" who will accomplish nothing in the future.The knowledge in books is carried by language.It occurred to me that this knowledge must have a communicable form, so it can be talked about, it can be negotiated.Through consultation, a lot of knowledge can become a consensus and become the basis for maintaining social harmony.Some knowledge can bring intellectual pleasure, become a game.For example, algebra abstracts the living reality into symbols, and then makes these symbols into mathematical models, researches behind closed doors, calculates on computers, and uses the results of the research to guide the ever-changing economic life.But algebra has set up too many intermediate processes and media between people and things, and has lost the inspiration, spark and wisdom when people come into contact with things.A mathematician named Chen Jingrun lived an isolated life when he was doing a mathematical game called "Goldbach's conjecture". He became a role model for many elementary school students, including me.At that time we forgot the communication and contact with other people, and also forgot the beauty of nature.

This book knowledge is not all knowledge.We need to learn optical knowledge from books, and more importantly, feel the sunlight directly, feel the vitality and color it brings to us, and the beautiful projection it leaves in our lives.To learn biological knowledge from books, you must directly feel the flowers blooming and fading in nature, the changes from spring to autumn, and its vitality.The beauty is speechless, and only your skin can feel the wisdom in it.