A Study On Traditional Pine And Cypress Culture Of China

The forestry is the source of culture, it is also the cradle of the human civilization. Forestry culture is the spirital power and the intellect source of fine ecological environment and forestry continued development. Forestry protected and flourishing can't do without an age-old forestry culture.The pine and cypress have had a long history in the earth, its artificially plant records in china has have a long time. During the course of long-term planting and using , culture is accumulated, civilization is mixed together, then pine and cypress culture is formed. It is a relatively independent and profound culture system, it is a important branch of forestry culture, therefore to all-round and systematic comb and research Chinese it is a meaningful question for study.There exist double interactive relations of mater and spirit between human and the pine and cypress. Chinese traditional pine and cypress culture has rich content and deep foundation, the aims of this study are to fill a vacant position of forestry history and to draw lessons from it, to enhance people's ideas of taking good care of trees, to expend green civilization, so that to contribute to form a harmonious society of socialism.The methods adopted in this thesis contains as follows: Firstly, on the basis of rich historic materials and achievements of one generation, materials need to be widespread gathered and discard the dross and select the essential, eliminate the false and retain the true, go from the outward apperance to the essence, in order to find out the mainly logic and theoric relations and sum up the law; Secondly, the development of pine and cypress culture should be studied in the total Chinese traditional culture'sbackground, not only in the limits of forestry culture; Thirdly, modern information technology need to be mastered and used, materials can be consulted by network, especially by "full text date bank", with the aim of knowing the newest internal and external trends and development, keeping the forward position of research work , striving for new ideas and discovers.As the history clue, from the angle of humanity,sociology and culture history, our traditional forestry culture was combined, Chinese traditional pine and cypress culture were studied systematic and detailed. It is a cultural phenomenon that draws on the pine and cypress and human. In order to understand the relation between the pine and cypress culture and human, the resources situation of pine and cypress must be understood firstly, it is the prerequisite and material base, it contains profound humane intension too. Then its' use should be understood, the processing that forestry was used and transformed is a part of forestry culture. The virtue and usefulness of pine and cypress are thoughted and popularize in the life. The pine and cypress of traditional folk custom culture refelect the value standards of a nation or a society, it is a common psychological congnition. The pine and cypress of traditional literate and art , they show the charm of Chinese literate and expand the art spirit of Chinese traditional culture, that is a magnificent paper of our Chinese literate and art history. The pine and cypress separate themselves from the pure natural state, they become the aesthetic object of human's thought. The appreciation to pine and cypress got from sense to soul, it brings rational thought, then the distillation and purification of sprite are got.At last, the reasons and symbols were summarized on the basis of the discussion. Society, thought and biology are the reasons of Chinese traditional pine and cypress being; The devout faith to remain forever, the object of ancestors soul worship, the sustenance of spirit and feeling, they are the symbols of the pine and cypress images.