民俗审美论纲

On Folk Aesthetics

民俗是广大民众在生存活动中创造出来的具有物质与精神两栖性的生活文化。它的鲜丽的形式结构承载着人类的善真追求,表现出美的特性。尤其是人生民俗和信仰民俗的超越性功能,更为审美活动提供了同构超越的心理基础。民俗“内容”与形式结构的统一表现了一种“有意味的形式”,生命活动不仅是原生态古朴民俗的基质,也是现代变异民俗的审美批判的基质,文艺民俗的审美价值表现在:浓染地方风采,创造独特氛围,建构民族文化。

Folk customs are of living culture that people create in life. Their bright formal structure carries with man's pursuit for goodness and truth, which expresses features of beauty. The transcendence of living in and believing in folk customs, in particular, offers a psychological basis of uniform transcendence for aesthetic activity. The unity of 'content' and form manifests a 'meaningful form'——life activity is not only the essence for primitive, simple folk customs but also the basis of critical aesthetics in modern variations of folk customs. Arts of folk customs show their aesthetic values in: rich local flavor, unique created atmosphere, and constructed national culture.