地理美学初探

论述了地理美学的客观存在性,探讨了地理美学的研究对象、研究内容和科学性质及其意义。

STUDIES OF BEAUTIFUL GEOGRAPHY

Geography studies the areal variation and relationships of things on the eart's surface-ncluding rocks, soils, plants, animals, waters, rainfall, agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation, commerce, tour, rural settlement and city, culture and population. Aesthetics studies beauty and the beautiful in nature and society and art, The material objects or embody of the beaitiful in nature and society are geographic study objects as stated above. The beautiful in art stems from them. Therefore, both geogrophy and aesthetics study the geographic objects, they cross each other. Many branch sciences of geography and aesthetics cross one another. In view of this, between geography and aesthetics a cross science exists, we call it Beautiful Geography. The study object of the beautiful geography is the beautiful of the geography objects (including individual, system and area, esp. landscape). The study content of the beautiful geography are that the cross area of both geography and aesthetics contains. At last, it discusses the significances and uses of the beautiful geography.