以大为美与华夏自然崇拜

Da is Beautiful: Some Reflections on Chinese Worship of Nature

“大”,是中国古老而重要的审美范畴,以“大”为美当萌芽于自然崇拜转向英雄崇拜的过程中。古人在利用和改造自然时,逐步意识到自身对于自然的力量,对自然的崇拜心理过渡为审美心理,自然从崇拜对象转化为审美对象,自然的神秘属性“大”,转化为审美属性,并混融于审美主体———人的属性,在自然与人的互相映照中,“大”显示出它特有的气派与魅力。

Da （meaning ＂big＂ literally） is an old and important aesthetic category in China, and the conception of ＂Da is beautiful＂ probably began to take shape when Chinese people changed their object of worship from nature to hertz. The ancient Chinese people, while utilizing and transforming nature, gradually became conscious of their power to nature. This very awareness resulted in nature becoming an object of aesthetics rather than an object of worship, and Da, the mysterious property of nature, began to take on some aesthetic property and blendod itself into the aesthetic subject, where its unique magnificenoe and glamour became salient.