王非告诉我,他喜欢读《山海经》,也喜欢画《山海经》。这自然是因为那书里有许多稀奇古怪的物事,吸引着这位还带着些稚气的青年人的心。我想,这恐怕还在于那些不受眼前的具体事物束缚的事物的故事,可以任想象的翅膀自由地在画纸上飞翔,或许《山海经》里那些神话就是富有想象和浪漫之思的中国美学思想的体现。由此,又使我想起了孔子的“游于艺”和庄子的“逍遥游”的“游”字。孔子所说的“游于艺”,不仅是指掌握某种技艺,那个“游”字也是指在这种掌握中的自由感。 Wang Fei told me that he likes to read “Shan Hai Jing” and also like to paint “Shan Hai Jing”. This is of course because there are many curious things in the book that attract the heart of this young man with some childishness. I think this is probably the story of things that are not bound by the specific things in front of me. You can freely fly on the paper with imaginative wings. Perhaps the myths in Shan Hai Jing are imaginative and romantic Reflection of Aesthetic Thought. As a result, I remind me of Confucius’s “You Yu Yi” and Zhuangzi’s “Getaway” “swim” word. What Confucius refers to as “traveling in art” refers not only to the mastery of a certain skill, but also to the sense of freedom in such mastery.