燕燕于飞,差池其羽——《诗经》自然审美之鸟篇

The swallow flying with its wings crossing and swinging——The natural beauty of birds in the Book of Songs

鸟类是《诗经》自然审美的重要内容。《诗经》显示:先秦时代人们已能从声音、色彩、形态方面对鸟类作形式美观照,对鸟类的生活习性有深入细致的了解,对鸟起人生之情,以鸟为抒情之具,说明时人自然审美已从生理快感飞跃到心理快感,从中可见先秦审美意识的发展水平。

Birds are the inportant contents of natural beauty in the Book of Songs, which shows that in the period before Qin Dynasty people had payed attention to the beauty of birds from its voice,colcur,figure and had known much about the living characteristic of birds, and birds caused their feelings and became the object they expressed their feelings to, showing that people at that time began to enjoy the beauty from physical to psychical. To enjoy the beauty of birds in the Book of Songs shows the level of enjoying beauty in the period before Qin Dynasty.