美与丑是相互对立、互相依存和转换的。美学研究不仅应当研究美,而且应当研究丑;不仅应当研究审美意识的产生和发展,而且也应当研究审丑意识的产生和发展。但从整个美学研究的情况看,研究美的著作汗牛充栋,研究丑的则只言片语,显得很不协调。最近,中国矿业大学出版社出版了朱存明的学术专著《中国的丑怪》,以独特的角度,深刻的分析,详实的资料,对中国美学史中的丑怪现象进行了专门的研究,“开辟了美学研究的新领域,填补了中国关于‘丑怪’这一美学现象迄今尚无人专门研究的空白。”(蒋孔阳:《中国的丑怪·序》)初读该书,感到该书确实具有一些独特之处。首先,朱存明同志的论著以 Beauty and ugliness are mutually antagonistic, interdependent and transposed. Aesthetic studies should not only study the United States, but also study ugliness. It is not only necessary to study the emergence and development of aesthetic awareness, but also to study the emergence and development of ugliness. However, judging from the situation of the entire aesthetics study, there are numerous studies on the beauty of the United States, but few words on the study of the ugly one. Recently, China University of Mining and Technology Press published Zhu Cunming’s academic monograph “The Ugly in China”, and conducted a special study on the ugly phenomenon in the history of Chinese aesthetics with a unique perspective, profound analysis and detailed information. Opened up a new field of aesthetics research and filled in the blank of China’s ugliness that this aesthetical phenomenon has not been studied till now. “(Jiang Kongyang:” The Chorus in China " The book does have some unique features. First of all, Comrade Zhu Cunming’s treatise is based on