Reconsidering the Issue of Natural Beauty in Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics

Ecological aesthetics is one of the hot spots in the aesthetic circle of China in recent years.The discussion of the issue is conducive to the reconsideration of the beauty of nature,but whether ecology has concern with aesthetics is most likely to arouse doubts,for ecological beauty cannot replace natural beauty.The discussion of ecological aesthetics is significant not because it has contributed to the founding of a new discipline,but because it has furthered our understanding of natural beauty and has laid down the philosophical foundation of a new natural aesthetics,which has three characteristics: 1) the sphere of natural beauty has been widened;2) the nature of natural beauty has been redefined;3) the relationship between man and nature has been reestablished.