授人以花,手有余香——周武忠《中国花文化史》读后

The Rose's in her Hand, the Flavor in Mine——A Book Review of The History of Chinese Flower Culture

中国花文化是植物在中国历史和人类文明进程中所起作用的总和,是中华民族文化的有机组成部分,也是城市生态文明建设的重要内容之一。图文并茂的《中国花文化史》,不仅是一部系统地探寻中国花史的发展历程及花文化内涵和外延轨迹的专著,也是一部从文化价值系统层面引导和提升读者认知中国花文化史价值的随笔性读物,填补了中国物质文化与非物质文化史上一个学术空白。

The Chinese flower culture encompasses all the roles that the plants can play in the process of human history and civilization in China, becoming an integral part of Chinese culture as well as an important element of constructing the urban ecological civilization. With fuly illustrated pages, The History of Chinese Flower Culture not only explores the developing process of China＇s flowers, the connotation and denotation of Chinese flower culture in a systematical way, but also plays an important role to raise its readers＇ awareness about the value in Chinese flower history from the cultural value perspective, meanwhile, it fills a gap in the historical study on material and non-material culture in China.