Chit San Win - Myanmar Poetry

Chapter (1)

Tracing art

I was thinking about the issue of Ratha after a cultural symposium held by the Ministry of Culture on February 27, 2004. At the symposium, scholars

It is said that art is made more brilliant .

So what is art?

It has been traditionally known that dancing, writing, and playing are arts.

Painting, sculpture, goldsmithing, blacksmithing, lacquer ware, and other crafts are also called arts. This is also traditional knowledge. Again, the art of

Love, joy, compassion, steadfastness, cruelty, cruelty, fear, courage, wonder, and the book of the New Year is said to have come. The field of art is vast. -It is difficult to measure the field of art.

However, I have studied the term art in depth. I believe that art, the Burmese term for aesthetics, is not directly related to the English term for aesthetics. Great Burmese scholars and artists have spoken about the Burmese aesthetic based on their life experiences. They have written introductions to the Burmese aesthetic. I have studied those writings. I spent the whole year of 2005 tracing the footsteps of art. I have taken this path slowly because I believe that this is a matter that needs time to be worked on.

I have written nearly 10 books a year since 1990, and 2005, when I started my artistic journey, was the year when I didn't publish a book. However, in early 2006, I was able to start my artistic journey. It was a time when the meaning of the word art was revealed.

Art is the way in which man, based on his million-year experience in life, freely imagines and creates, using his brain (mind) and his physical body, to live in harmony with his environment, fulfilling his physical and mental needs for survival, and to relax by imitating the natural environment. The beauty of the common feelings is called art.

This is my thought about Burmese art. If we analyze the above sentence, we will see that the sentence contains the following elements. The elements included are . . .

1. One million years of human life

2. The will to survive

3. Material needs

4. Mental and emotional needs

5. Imitating nature.

6. Humans should live in harmony with their environment.

7. The human mind (brain) and physical body

8. Freedom

9. Part making

10. Man is the one who devises his own plan.

11. Beauty

12. Feeling

13. Public

There are (13) such expressions.

A million years of human life

Man has been walking on his own two feet for about a million years. In those million years, man has gained many experiences. Man's experiences are unique and strange. There are many. There are also difficult experiences. There are also peaceful and happy experiences. Man creates art according to his million years of life experiences, life feelings, and life needs.

The will to survive

In the course of a million years of human life, the thing that man most desires, the most longs for, the most desires he desires, the most desires he desires is the desire to live. The desire to live is his desire to be alive. The desire to live is his desire to be one with his life and his body. He is most afraid of death, and he is most unwilling. He wants to live. Because of this desire to live, his needs arise. This is called the need for life. There are two needs for life. The need for mental life and the need for physical life. In pursuing these needs, man inevitably finds himself a victim of art. Or he becomes a victim of art.

Physical needs

As a man travels through a million years of his life,

(a) Natural disasters

(b) The dangers of witchcraft

(c) Facing accidental dangers.

Then, from the day a person becomes a human being,

(d) Aging

(e) Pain

(f) Death

They inevitably face these things.

People also have daily needs. These needs include:

(g) The matter of food. We cannot live without eating, and if we do not eat, we will die.

(h) Matters of clothing,

As for clothing, people wear clothes to protect themselves from the weather and to protect themselves from shame.

(i) The matter of staying.

The issue of living is also important. Since we have become human, we need a place to live and a place to shelter. (j) In addition, there are other social needs. These are love, children, sexuality, property, honor, ceremonies, traditional customs, etc. Other needs are even more. Humans are different from other animals in that they have the ability to create, plan, and learn. Humans are always working to discover the secrets of nature and grow. Humans have the brain that can make such plans. The human brain is the most important. The brain is the main factor in human survival. If the brain dies, the human dies. If the brain forgets, the human forgets. The human body is the main body of the brain.

Nature includes natural disasters such as rainstorms, floods, and earthquakes, as well as pleasant weather, abundant crops, etc. Nature has both good and bad effects.

The matter of fortune-telling refers to the occurrence of all kinds of undesirable and desirable things that arise due to people's love, hatred, jealousy, attachment, etc. The matter of the emergence of the Buddha in the human world, the matter of the outbreak of major world wars are matters that arise due to the matter of fortune-telling. These matters also have both good and bad effects. Accidental matters in the human world, such as the birth of a good child, falling from a height and breaking a leg, a car accident, a spaceship crash, etc. are also accidents. Due to these matters, material needs arise in human life.

From making umbrellas to protect against rain, making pots to hold water, and weaving baskets to store things, the art of umbrella making, pot making, and basket making emerged. Art was something that humans accidentally discovered, and it was a good fortune for them to have found it. From the joy of hunting and screaming and jumping, songs and dances emerged. From making boats to cross the stream, the art of boat making emerged, and from making the boats more beautiful, the art of boat making emerged. These are arts that arose from imitating nature according to the needs of life.

Mental needs

People have minds. The mind not only creates ideas, but also has feelings. When faced with negative consequences such as natural disasters, witchcraft, and accidents, people feel sad. They are broken. They cry. They are worried. In old age and in the period when they are not old, not sick, and not dead, there are mental needs. These mental needs have given rise to mental needs-related arts.

Although death is inevitable, people are not born and die. Although death is inevitable, there is a period in human life when death has not yet come. Similarly, before death, people are still alive, so before old age, illness, and death, people have feelings of joy and happiness. That joy gives birth to art. When old age, illness, death, being with someone they do not love, being separated from someone they love, etc. occur, the human mind becomes sad.