Practice Aesthetic Orientation In Ancient China

Technological practice in ancient China is the process of technical activities for people in ancient China in order to meet the requirements of their own survival and development,adapting,understanding and utilization of the natural.This technology practice is also reflected as the history of interaction and interplay between people and nature in ancient China.Aesthetic value-orientation for China's ancient technological practice is the tendency of aesthetic psychology to technological design,practical process,technological artifacts held by Chinese ancient people in the process of technical activities.The aesthetic psychological tendency is based on the objective psychological feelings and reflection when ancient Chinese people face the technology practice and its result,and then reflected as the value orientation of likes and dislikes,beauty and ugliness.The rich and diversity of technology design,technology process and technological practice result in ancient China decides the multidimensional aesthetic value orientation of technological practice,mainly including artistic aesthetic orientation,ecological aesthetic orientation,humanistic orientation.Aesthetic orientation of those has its own unique forming factors,representation forms and social impact.The aesthetic orientation of artistic beauty,ecological beauty and cultural beauty for ancient Chinese technology practice are of great important reference value and instructive to nowadays our country technology practice.Modern Chinese technological practice should be conducted and innovated on the basis of aesthetic value orientation for ancient technology.Modern technological practice should aim at achieve the unity of "the truth,the good and the beauty",which is beneficial to achieve the harmonious development of man and nature,but also to the building of a harmonious socialist society.Technological practice contains a variety of aesthetic value orientation,which is the most direct and the most obvious is economic value,and its artistic value,ecological value and humanistic value has been failed to pay enough attention to.Technical practice is,in fact,the unity of value orientation of the true,the good and the beauty: technology practice containing scientific truth,is the understanding of the nature and application,which embodies the real value orientation of technology;Technology practice also directly meet various needs of people,provides a variety of convenience for human life,which embodies the value orientation of technology;An excellent manufacture technology of artificial objects,not only give people aesthetic feeling but also pleasing to human mind,which reflects the value orientation of technological beauty.In comparison with the attention on real and good for technology practice in academic study,the study on technological practice aesthetic is weak,which has big research potential.Particularly important,the practice of Chinese ancient technology produced a number of world-class engineering and invention,which bear great research value.Moreover,through the research on aesthetic value in technical practice,the artistic value,ecological value and human value of technology can unify,to a certain extent,providing a preliminary framework of aesthetic value orientation for current technological practice innovation.