尽管德国的生物学家海克尔在1866年首次提出生态学一词至今只有一百多年,尽管美国的文化进化论学者斯图尔德于1955年总结了前人的理论和实践,首先让文化生态学的响亮称谓出世至今也才几十年光景,可是,在我们迄今已发现的有近二百年历史的潮汕侨批文化中却早已充溢着鲜明的生态意识这不能不使人惊叹并引为自豪。本文试图从自然和人文方面对侨批文 Although the German biologist Haeckel first proposed the term ecology in 1866 for only a hundred years, although Stuart, a cultural evolutionist in the United States, summarized the theories and practices of his predecessors in 1955, The loud name of ecology is still only a few decades since it was born. However, it is amazing that we have already had a clear ecological awareness in the nearly 200-year-old culture of Chaoshan, which we have discovered so far. Proud This article attempts to approve the overseas Chinese in both nature and humanities