Research on Ecological Aesthetic Implication of Chinese Classical Literature Liaozhai Tales Based on Ecological Aesthetic Theory

Abstract

Liaozhai Tales, a classical Chinese literary work, mainly shows ecological aesthetic implications from three aspects: man and nature, man and society, and man and man themselves. Tales of Liaozhai not only depicts the true character and the amiable nature, but also highlights the intimacy and integration between man and nature in the life world. It shows the integrated relationship between man and nature with the story of the fate of man and natural objects and the sharing of life and death, which implies the ecological aesthetic connotation of harmony and unity between man and nature. The ecological aesthetic implication of Liaozhai Zhiyi has a multi-level influence on the development of later literature and ecological aesthetic theory. The work continues the natural writing which is isomorphic with human life in Liaozhai Zhiyi, and at the same time, it enters into a deeper spiritual connection and gives out practical significance. In A Dream of Red Mansions and The Transparent Carrot, nature is regarded as the symbol of life force. The former expresses the author's philosophical thinking on human destiny with the complexity and tragedy of "the union of wood and stone". The latter connects nature with man and constitutes a force that surpasses modern moral discipline, which both inherits and further develops from Liaozhai Zhiyi. It is a new practice of ecological aesthetics, and it makes a new contribution to the construction of Chinese discourse of ecological aesthetics.