论意境的心灵净化功能

意境、境界是建筑在人类心境基础上的审美和道德活动,它具有鲜明的民族性格特征。农业文明的生产、生活方式使我们相比其他民族具有心境绵长的心理特征。心境转化为艺术、道德活动中的意境、境界追求。中国传统文化重视道德人格境界的培育,中国传统艺术则特别重视对意境的营造。意境美具有净化心灵、美感化的心境功能。它能淘汰心理杂质,升华心境,成为人们观察生活、确定自我的心理模式,从而对主体人格产生了潜移默化的改造。今天我们面对市场经济下的人心浮躁、失衡不能寻找飘渺的宗教精神支持,而要从开发传统审美文化获得资源,推广具有民族特色的审美教养方式。

On Aesthetic Culture with Chinese Features from the Perspective of Soul-purifying Function of Artistic Conception

Artistic conception and the state of mind are aesthetic and moral activities built on human framework of mind.They are blessed with distinct national features.The modes of production and living in agricultural civilization endow us such psychological traits as expansive framework of mind in contrast with other nationalities.The framework of mind is then transformed into arts,artistic conception in moral activities and pursuit of a state of mind.Traditional Chinese culture lays emphasis on the cultivation of moral persona,while traditional Chinese arts particularly accentuate the building of artistic conception.The beauty of artistic conception has such functions as purifying souls and beautifying things.Its can lend itself to washing out one’s psychological impurities,sublime one’s mental framework,and hence develop into a psychological pattern by which people can observe life and identify themselves.Therefore,it exerts a subtle influence on one’s subjective persona.Nowadays,people are surrounded by impetuous and imbalanced souls in the midst of market economy.Notwithstanding,they can’t find comforts in religion as their spiritual pillar.Therefore,it’s advisable that traditional aesthetic culture should be further explored and promoted as a way of socially cultivating people’s state of mind.