Why The United States. Stone

In the ancient history Chinese had established gradually a series of quite rich traditions about the stone appreciation, puts to the behavior, the literature, the material cultural relics, and the oral myth fable. This ancient Chinese stone lore is the reflection of the certain deepenings of life pursuit in the China traditional culture, like in pursuit of the worldview of "Tian ren he yi", moral or self-perfection, artistic charm and ideal condition ,and so on.This article takes the stone appreciation activities as the research objects, takes the ancient and the near modern written materials of the stone appreciation practices as the monograph's main basis, has made the preliminary discussion on the arguments of its esthetic relations and esthetic function.The subjects include the own condition of the host and the object, their esthetic relations in Chinese traditional culture;the natural beauty and cultural beauty;the general characters and the individualities;"the clown"in the ancient Chinese stone lore;the improvement of human survival environment and the adjustment of living rhythm;Chinese's higher pursuit in spirit like the emotion, morals, the determination, remembers and thoughts on old times.Finally it emphasized that the human own takes the main esthetic function: Regardless of how high the esthetic level the stone appreciation can achieve, actually all is determined by people . As an esthetic cultural traditions, Chinese unique stone appreciation has its profound humanities connotation surmounting some other superficial amusements, can serves as the symbol of Chinese's national disposition and their deep emotion.