生态美学是20世纪以来在人类和整个地球面临生态危机的大背景下产生、在各种生态理论不断丰富发展下提出的一种包含着生态维度的存在论美学。生态美学以人与自然的生态审美关系为基本出发点,全新地审视了人与自然、人与社会及人与自身的生态审美关系。生态美学理论虽产生于后工业化时代,但却与中国传统文化有着诸多暗合之处。 Ecological aesthetics is a kind of existential aesthetics which contains ecology dimension which is produced under the background of the ecological crisis of mankind and the whole earth since the 20th century. It is put forward under the development of various ecological theories. Ecological aesthetics takes the ecological aesthetic relationship between man and nature as the basic starting point and examines the ecological aesthetic relationship between man and nature, man and society and between man and himself. Although the theory of ecological aesthetics originated in the post-industrial era, it has many hidden points with Chinese traditional culture.