Chapter 99 Overcoming Morbid Aesthetic Psychology

Leshan Giant Buddha, together with Mount Emei, is listed as a world cultural and natural heritage.The cultural landscape there is already quite full, so there is no need to add superfluous things.However, Leshan City has contracted the scenic spot to a company. This company wants to make a profit, and it wants to make a big profit. Build the so-called "Oriental Buddha Capital".Its most proud stroke is to dig mountains and break rocks to replicate the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan that was bombed by the Taliban.Regardless of how much research they have done on the history of Buddhism, whether it is appropriate to combine the Giant Buddha of Afghanistan with the Leshan Giant Buddha, and without asking what the so-called "Oriental Buddha Capital" is, just from the geological structure of the Leshan Giant Buddha scenic spot In terms of natural ecology and humanistic connotation, the destructiveness of their actions has been appalling.

As for Mount Emei, the slogan of "creating the most famous mountain in the world" was put forward.This is a very strange slogan. UNESCO included it in the "World Cultural and Natural Heritage" not because it is "the world's first famous mountain", but because of its inherent personality. "Creating"—in fact, it means reinventing itself and engaging in tourism development to the point of madness—is "the most famous mountain in the world", and Mount Emei is no longer Mount Emei.To be "No. 1 in the world" means to automatically remove Mount Emei from the list of "World Cultural and Natural Heritage".

The cultural and natural landscapes of Leshan and Mount Emei have been brutally destroyed. It is a bad motive to get rich from "scenery". In addition, it is worth mentioning that it is a morbid aesthetic concept.Morbid aesthetics, one manifestation is to pile up as beauty, completely ignoring that the real beauty lies in moderation.This kind of problem is not unique to the present. For example, the furniture of the Ming Dynasty has bright lines and interesting decorations. There is aura to speak of.Another manifestation of morbid aesthetics is the mistaken belief that bigger is more beautiful, and "number one" is beautiful. In fact, being huge and "number one" is not necessarily beautiful. Instead, it is often something that is not so huge, not "number one in the world". The mountain and river houses are more impressive in beauty.It is tantamount to committing suicide to make things that are beautiful when they are displayed in moderation and make them bigger and strive for "No. 1 in the world".

Let’s talk about Zhangjiajie, which was originally unknown. It was discovered by a famous painter in the early 1980s, and it was lamented as a fairyland on earth, which led to more and more tourism development.It is a good thing for a spectacle not to be exclusively enjoyed by a few artists and explorers, but for common people to share in its beauty, but the aesthetic thing has been turned into a "eating scene". The result is that in the most beautiful core scenic spot of Tianzi Mountain, a group of villas and dense accommodation and dining areas have been built. After being included in the "World Cultural and Natural Heritage" list, UNESCO issued a warning and ordered them to be demolished.Although this decision is being implemented, the so-called "viewing ladder" is still in operation, that is, a large elevator built against the mountain, which looks like an alien monster invading the natural forest.This kind of elevators, cableways, and cable cars built on the grounds of "convenient viewing for tourists" have generally appeared in various scenic spots in China in recent years. The first batch of Mount Tai, which was included in the "World Cultural and Natural Landscape", is both disfiguring and harmful. The problems of geological structure, natural vegetation, and ecologically harmonious cableway have not been properly resolved until today.

In the places listed as world cultural and natural heritage, some officials blindly want to use the "fruits" of "tourism development" as their political achievements, while some developers try their best to squeeze out the "golden juice" of "heritage".Their acts that go against the original intention of UNESCO's assessment of world cultural and natural heritage must of course be criticized and corrected first.But among the general public, there are also confused people. Under the influence of sick aesthetics, they are not in awe at first, but eager to see it first, to leave traces of their fingers, and to go to the heritage site, they still have to eat and drink. Fun.The hotels, restaurants, entertainment centers, mountain elevators, cableways across the streams and other things in the heritage sites were also derived from the promotion of buyers with morbid aesthetics.As soon as the news of the Goguryeo site in Jilin's application for the world cultural heritage was published in the media, tourists flocked to it. It is a small matter that the custodian organization can't print the tickets. Tourists, pick something here as a "memory", and engrave "Visit here" on the other side and sign your name. You don't know what culture is, but you talk about "playing" when you leave. For such behavior, especially It is this kind of despicable and pathological aesthetic psychology, I shout out loudly: Chinese people, please work hard to overcome it!