Abstract:
Written more 3000 years ago, the Book of Songs expressed our ancestry's aesthetic pursuit of “harmony between heaven and men”, the basic idea of which was a “longing” to be “in harmony with heaven and land”. The classical ecological existential orientation was embodied in those poems of Feng style which contained ecological humanities, including the poems of “Pushang in the mulberry shade” which described the true love of the early people, the craftsmanship of analogy and association on the basis of ecological equality in ancient times, and the poems of “remembering the past time” which expressed the early people's reminiscence of their homeland. These particular “poetic styles”, “poetic moods” and “poetic devices” representing an aesthetic mind of classical ecological existentialism show both the important part of this classical thought in developing a contemporary aesthetic view of ecological existentialism and its theoretical limitations in terms of “practical aesthetics”.
