Laozi said: "The beauty in the world is beauty and evil. Everyone knows that good is good and bad. " This sentence in Laozi is a classic, from which we can roughly summarize the opposition between beauty and ugliness. Beauty comes with ugly forms and concepts. If there are only ugly forms and concepts in the world, then beauty absolutely does not exist, and so does beauty. If there is no ugly contrast and opposition, how can a beautiful form be embodied and perceived? However, the space we live in is a place where everything is opposite. Everything is material and ideological. Good and evil, beauty and ugliness, height and thinness are enough to express. Einstein's theory of relativity systematically expounded and demonstrated this view. The eight diagrams of ancient Taiji in China can also represent this idea!
Here, I want to analyze the relationship between beauty and ugliness with the ancient Taiji Eight Diagrams in China. The center of Taiji Bagua is a circle. Black and white are intertwined and distinct, but there are two black spots in black and white. What's the intention? If you ask me, the relationship between beauty and ugliness is like this picture
Although beauty and ugliness seem to be two opposites on the surface, they are actually interdependent and mutually transformed. There is no fixed boundary to decide what is beautiful or ugly! Beauty and ugliness, like Tai Chi diagram, seem to have clear boundaries, but in fact they are vague. At a certain stage, they will transform into each other. For example, an extremely ugly woman will undergo plastic surgery and become a beautiful woman. Then formal beauty is a process from ugliness to beauty.
In a word, beauty and ugliness are interdependent and mutually transformed. There is no absolute beauty, and of course there will be no specific ugliness!