阴阳家的生态观念及其历史地位

阴阳家的生态观念主要见于现存《吕氏春秋》的《十二纪》等文献中。四时教令是阴阳家不同于诸家而特有的观念 ,包含着丰富的生态意蕴。阴阳家根据阴阳消长和五行运转说明天地自然生态变化的机制 ,并通过一年四时、十二月、二十四节气清理出一个有序化的生态系列 ,由此制定人事活动必须遵循的生态律令。阴阳家以顺应阴阳五行为其生态理想 ,具体通过“序四时之大顺”来实现。阴阳家的生态模式总结了先秦农业生态的有关知识和经验 ,具有自己的思想特色 ,并推动了中国古代生态观念从理论向实践的转化

The Ecological Idea of the School of Naturalists and Its Historical Position

The ecological idea of the School of Naturalists mainly expresses in the existing Lv’s Annals, Twelve Periods and other documents. The rules of four seasons developed by the Naturalists is an idea which includes rich ecological meaning, and distinctive is from other schools of thoughts. The Naturalists explained the mechanism of the natural ecological changes according to the decrease and increase of the Yin and Yang, and the revolve of the Five Elements; made an orderly ecological system through the four seasons, twelve months and twenty-four solar terms; and therefore formulated the ecological rules the human activities must obey. The ecological mode set up by of the Naturalists summarizes the relative agricultural knowledge and experiences of that time, formed their own ideological characters, and pushed forward the transformation of theory to practice of ancient Chinese ecological idea.