每个民族都有自己的艺术文化的特色。 中国古代的艺术家和观众们,对于艺术——包括绘画、雕塑、戏曲等等,更看重作品中所表现的“善”和“美”,并不要求艺术达到与生活中的事物完全相似的“真”。 西方中世纪号称“四大教父”之一的圣·奥古斯丁(St.Augustine)曾认为:只有承认演戏是假的,才能达到真正感人的艺术效果。他说:“一幅画中的马不是假的话,这幅画又怎么称得上是真正的绘画呢?”(《忏悔录》)中国古代的艺术家和观众很早就懂得一个道理: Each nation has its own artistic and cultural characteristics. Ancient Chinese artists and audiences pay more attention to the “goodness” and “beauty” expressed in the works of art - including paintings, sculptures, opera, etc., and do not require art to achieve “ true”. St. Augustine, one of the “four great godfathers” of the Western Medieval, once considered it as true to the art effect that admitting acting was fake. He said: “If a horse in a painting is not a fake word, how can the painting be regarded as a real painting?” (“Confessions”) Chinese ancient artists and audiences have long ago understood the truth: