However, when people appreciate flowers, they are engaged in aesthetic activities. At this time, the natural scenery "flower" becomes an aesthetic object, which is discovered, illuminated and awakened by human consciousness, making "flower" an "image" (a complete and meaningful perceptual world). "Flower" calls for its unique perceptual existence form, which guides people as aesthetic subjects to experience to some extent.
Wang Yangming's Biography: When Mr. Wang was playing in Nanzhen, a friend pointed to a flower tree in the rock and asked, "If there is something unintentional in the world, what does this flower tree have to do with my heart?"
Mr. Wang said, "when you didn't see this flower, it died with your heart." When you look at this flower, the color of the flower suddenly becomes clear, and you know it is not outside your heart. "
The beauty of flowers is human creation. People don't passively accept what they see, but pour their lives into it and sublimate the real thing into an unreal form-the image of "flower".
The beautiful image of this flower varies from person to person, and different people can feel different beauty.
The beauty of "flowers" is also historic. In different historical times, different nationalities and different classes, the beauty of "flowers" has similarities and differences. For example, peonies, orchids, chrysanthemums and plum blossoms have different meanings for China people and Europeans.
When a person's subjective life perception and objective and natural "flowers" blend together, it forms a beautiful spiritual realm. This is not a "flower" of physical reality, but a feeling of life, an understanding and touching of life.