气象美学导论

Brief Review of Meteorological Aesthetics in East Asia

在东亚,自古就有重视自然美的传统,雨、雪、霞等气象现象,在审美意义乃至美学意义上都发挥了重要作用。不仅日本,在整个东亚地区很早就将霞、雾、雨、雪等气象现象作为风流的事象进行审美活动。这种广义的尊重气象的倾向对文化产生影响,形成了东亚认识美、感受美的基础,并由此孕育出丰富的文化和艺术。东亚文化受到其固有风土的影响,产生了特有的气象文化,孕育了气象美学的胚芽,这种文化和美学在把握自然和风土特征等方面产生了独特的影响。日本乃至东亚展开的艺术和美意识,与欧美风土上形成的文化是不同的。对于欧美所形成的关于自然的美学和美意识,东亚的气象美学可以起到修正和完善的作用。

In East Asia,there has been a tradition of attaching importance to natural beauty since ancient times,which can be exemplified by the fact that meteorological phenomena such as rain,snow and haze have played significant roles aesthetically.In Japan,together with many other countries in East Asia,the meteorological phenomena including haze,fog,rain and snow etc.have been regarded as elegant events for aesthetic activities for a long time.This tendency of worshiping the weather in a broad sense has an impact on culture,forming the basis for East Asia to know and to feel beauty,and consequently breeds rich and colorful cultures and arts.Influenced by its inherent climate,East Asian culture has yielded its unique meteorological culture and has nurtured the germ of meteorological aesthetics.This kind of culture and aesthetics has a unique impact on finding the nature and the characteristics of the climate.The artistic and aesthetic awareness in Japan and even in East Asia is different from that in Europe and America.Thus,by examining the meteorological aesthetics in Europe and America,we can integrate and develop the aesthetics and aesthetic consciousness of nature in East Asia.