Arts Studies and Criticism

Li Bai lamented in his poem "Asking the Moon with a Cup of Wine: My Old Friend Jia Chun Asked Me to: "The men of today cannot see the ancient moon / Yet this moon once shone on the men of old." The relationship between tradition and contemporaneity involves not only a re-examination of time and space but also the continuation and reconstruction of aesthetic experience. Mingyue Village, located along the Tea-Horse Road in Pujiang, Chengdu, historically a post station on the Southern Silk Road, preserves 6,000 mu of ecological Lei bamboo forests and 2,000 mu of ecological tea fields. For millennia, villagers have maintained the agrarian tradition of "rising with the sun and resting with its setting." In the context of new era rural construction, Mingyue Village has integrated the traditional poetic aesthetics of "bright moon shining through pines, clear stream flowing over stones" with modern lifestyles through environmental creation and cultural creativity, demonstrating the practical value of the aesthetic concept of "harmony between nature and humanity" (Tian Ren He Yi) in contemporary rural construction. This paper aims to explore how traditional aesthetics can guide villages to achieve synergistic development of ecology, culture, and industry, providing a theoretical reference and practical pathways for contemporary rural revitalization.