From the ecological origin of aesthetic activities, we can deeply understand the close relationship between beauty and life. The research results of biological response function in psychology show that the birth of life itself means the emergence of the first biological response form-sensitivity. In the process of biological evolution, all other higher forms of reflection are produced on the basis of induction. People's vision, hearing and touch accept different "waves" or "rhythms" respectively. When people get information content through these senses, it also causes corresponding changes in the rhythm state of life in rhythm induction. Therefore, vision and hearing have become the most important response perception organs of animals and people, while touch and motion perception, which can receive rhythm information, have auxiliary functions.
Life is undoubtedly the most abundant, complex and sensitive rhythmic existence in the world, and flower of life has become the most vivid and colorful beauty. Because of this, "beauty is life". No matter from the aesthetic activities of animals or from the aesthetic reality of human beings, the truth of this proposition is beyond doubt.
Second, from the ecological function of aesthetic activities.
Aesthetic activities act on the subject's life experience through rhythm induction mediated by rhythm form, which can make up for the lack of breadth and depth of life experience, improve the quality of life in the complementary interaction of sensibility and rationality, realize the integration and promotion of life (culture) at different levels, and finally affect the formation of personality and adjust the ecological relationship between man and the environment. In the final analysis, the ecological function of aesthetic activities is to adjust and maintain, repair and optimize the ecological balance of human nature and its environment, and promote the ecological survival of human life. Its concrete connotation is life, harmony, harmony and progress. The positive ecological function of aesthetic activities coincides with what Chernyshevski said: "Beauty is the kind of life (life) that should be like this according to our ideas".
"Life" means life, survival, cherishing life, protecting life and creating life. Aesthetic activities have the ecological function of stimulating life will and optimizing life state. In human aesthetic activities, reproductive worship as the theme of primitive art and the role of various arts in human "sexual selection" activities are proof. All aesthetic concepts oriented to absurdity, ugliness and mediocrity bring about the diversification of the connotation of "beauty" and the dissolution of "beauty", which is an excellent disproof. "Harmony" means harmony, harmony and difference. Harmonious ecological environment can bring happiness and development of life. Aesthetic activity is to adjust the harmonious relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and nature. "Combination" means integration, integration and cooperation. Aesthetic activities have the ecological function of "enlightening comprehensive consciousness and cultivating overall spirit". Life and biology evolve in synthesis, and society develops in cooperation. The deep function of aesthetic activities lies in enlightening and cultivating people's overall life concept and pushing it to society and nature, establishing the overall life concept, transcending intellectual thinking and moving from abstract to concrete. Comprehensive concept and overall consciousness should be a new way for us to look at the relationship between man and nature again today, and also a new way for us to transform literature and art and aesthetics. "Advance" means evolution, progress, enterprising and transcendence. Aesthetic activities have the ecological function of "holding high lofty ideals and promoting the formation of human nature". Man is constantly generated in the overall relationship with nature, society and cultural ecosystem, which coincides with the academic logic of "generation ontology", a basic viewpoint of humanistic ecological aesthetics. In this sense, we can understand the profound meaning of Chernyshevski's "beauty is life".
Three. abstract
Life has various forms. What kind of life is really beautiful? Chernyshevski, as a revolutionary democratic thinker, based on the actual situation of serfs struggling for death, thought that people should live first, and then live a healthy and energetic life like laborers is really beautiful. Only in this way can Chernyshevski be deeply moved. Visible, for "beauty"