'Roughness': The Natural Beauty of the Hezhe Ethnic Minority

摘要

Ethnic minority in Northeast China gallops in the wild land, travels around the world, fights north and south. Most of them possess the gallant, vigorous and bold aesthetic taste. Nevertheless, Hezhe ethnic minority known for their "fishing taste" have a kind of rough beauty, which is fierce and wild. This kind of beauty is actually different from the beauty of a fine delicacy and harmony, which is rich in "strength" and "vigor". It is synonymous with the "beauty of masculinity", embodying the internal spirits of grandness, magnificence, bold and unrestrained, which has quite rich regional cultural characteristics. The rough beauty of Hezhe ethnic minority is concentrate in the worship of hero, nature and their living practice, namely, clothing, food, housing, transportation and so on.