美是什么?由于美有多义性,所以想用一个完美的结论把它固定化是很困难的。但起码有这样一些因素必须考虑。首先美是审美主体的人所理解、所认识的美。美有强烈的社会性。离开了社会意义的内涵,美或者消失,或者降同于动物的生理需要。例如人以松、竹、兰、菊等花卉草木为美,那是因为它们的自然属性被赋予了人所需要的象征意义,是物质现象的心灵化。而在动物眼里,它们与一般植物是没有区别的,共价值无非只是能填饱肚子而已。人若按照动物的生理需要来 What is beauty? Because beauty is ambiguous, it is difficult to fix it with a perfect conclusion. But at least some of these factors must be considered. First, the United States is understood by the people of the aesthetic subject, the beauty recognized. America has strong sociality. Left the meaning of social significance, the United States or disappear, or lower the physiological needs of animals. For example, people take beauty of flowers and plants such as pine, bamboo, orchid and chrysanthemum because their natural attributes have been given the symbolic meanings that people need and are the spiritualization of material phenomena. In the eyes of animals, they are indistinguishable from common plants, and their total value is nothing but filling their stomachs. If according to the animal’s physiological needs