Kawabata Yasunari's sympathy is on the bright side. While portraying the characters, he also depicts his pursuit and his attitude towards life. We can see Kawabata Yasunari's attitude towards art from celebrities. Kawabata Yasunari's love for Go is also shown by beautiful and elegant's love for this character.
Kawabata Yasunari wrote that Xiuzi is the last guardian of the traditional spirit of Weiqi and a banner to defend orthodoxy in the decline of Weiqi. The celebrity show is singing an elegy of the old times, and he is bidding farewell to an era; Yasunari Kawabata is also singing an elegy, and he is also saying goodbye to the last chess player with the spirit of the old times.
Xiuzai is a "dying man" in Kawabata Yasunari's aesthetic concept, which can be seen not only from his age and physiology, but also from his spirit.
Japanese people like cherry blossoms very much. The beauty of cherry blossoms is very short-lived, and it is difficult to bloom for a long time. When the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the earth is dyed red. However, as long as there is wind and rain, bright cherry blossoms will be scattered. The beauty of cherry blossoms often appears in works of art. When describing cherry blossoms, there is pathetic love. As a memory and imagination, cherry blossoms remain in people's hearts. The beautiful beauty in Celebrity also has the characteristics of cherry blossoms. In Xiuzai's life, Kawabata Yasunari swept away his glory and only intercepted the last game of chess. Celebrity is a falling cherry blossom, which is the traditional style of Japanese literature in this novel.
But the celebrities in Celebrity are all beautiful and can't be regarded as prototypes in life. This is because, after Kawabata Yasunari gave Xiuzai deep sympathy and praise, this "Xiuzai" had Kawabata Yasunari's artistic creation and Kawabata Yasunari's imagination. In other words, this is the beauty of Kawabata Yasunari.
In this way, we can say that the tall and beautiful spiritual image in the novel is not necessarily completely true; The wretched little bamboo in the novel should be different from Minoru Kitani, the master who trained half the world-class chess players. From a higher perspective, there is no need to shed tears for an old competition system that is doomed to perish. It is also a historical necessity that the old Weiqi spirit is replaced by the new Weiqi spirit, not the decline of Weiqi. From a more reasonable point of view of the new system, this reflects the great progress of Go. Of course, this kind of history is bound to be too understated in the novel.
Xiuzai is in such a historical period, and his persistence and tenacity add to his tragic color. Aesthetic concepts with the color of the times and individuality are often difficult to stand on the same side as rationality and science.