The Silk Road Trip Of The Olive And The Generation Of Its Aesthetic Significance

The "Silk Road Aesthetic Culture" in the context of the "One Belt,One Road" can be explored from multiple perspectives,the study of an exotic species coming along the Silk Road is actually a biologically biographical study of a species introduced from a foreign country to China.Olives are a special plant native to the peninsula of Asia Minor.It entered China via the Silk Road and was then grown there.After olives left its place of origin for Greece,it became a typical object of plant worship in Greek mythology,while the Bible also endowed it with traditional religious significance.During its spread in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Silk Road,this plant was constantly given a new cultural meaning.After entering China,it collided with and interacted with the olive culture in the local context,generating a brand new cultural meaning and social life.After historical changes,olives have long changed in a general aesthetic sense in the Chinese context today – through aesthetic restructuring and sublation,the cultural image of olives in the traditional sense is obscured,while the heavily Westernized image of olives is preserved based on faster acceptance and absorption of the Western culture.In this paper,olives,a relatively special substance,are selected as an individual species in the Silk Road multi-species system for biologically biographical analysis,and are examined as a cultural image in an effort to summarize all aesthetic meanings given to olives during its spread and in an attempt to analyze the causes of such variation in aesthetic sense and such regeneration of cultural image so as to go deep into the implications behind the spread and change of the olive image.Meanwhile,this paper attempts to provide a new research perspective and reference methodology for the future intercultural study of species on the Silk Road,in particular the study of the evolution of cultural imagery of species.