Tourism has developed from individual activities and group behaviors to today’s modern tourism industry, and has become a social lifestyle involving tourism resources, tourism facilities, tourism services, tourism activities, etc. Tourism includes six major elements: travel, accommodation, food, travel, shopping and entertainment. It also has many types such as leisure, inspection, study tour, business and trade, etc., and is related to politics, economy, culture and science. In terms of aesthetics alone, it is a comprehensive aesthetic practice activity of natural beauty, artistic beauty, and social beauty. Therefore, from a humanistic perspective, tourism has diverse cultural significance. This article combines emotion, reason and knowledge to discuss the cultural significance of tourism from the aspects of tourism and people’s love for beauty, human civilization, talent growth, spiritual needs, physical and mental health, etc.
1. Travel and beauty-loving nature
People cannot live without nature. Human beings rely on nature for survival and development. In addition to asking for material materials such as animals and plants, air, sunlight, and water that cannot be separated from nature, they often also obtain spiritual food for aesthetic enjoyment from the beauty of nature. Marx made an incisive discussion on this. He said: “The more universal man is than animals, the more universal the scope of the inorganic nature he relies on to live. In the field of cognition, plants, animals, minerals, air, light, etc. form part of human consciousness. Sometimes as objects of natural science, sometimes as objects of art, they constitute the inorganic nature of human spirit, that is, spiritual food. “As material materials, nature only provides people with the conditions for life to survive, but as spiritual food, it provides people with the conditions for survival.” The sublimation of the beauty of human life allows people to obtain “extreme audio-visual entertainment”, enjoy the beauty that pleases the body and mind, and obtain the spiritual excitement that shakes the temperament and generates artistic inspiration. It is like the beauty of the melody of music, the beauty of the image of painting, and the beauty of artistic conception of poetry, painting people with infinite beauty. This is a high-level spiritual enjoyment that is different from animals and primitive people. Therefore, traveling to nature to appreciate beauty is a noble activity for humans to understand and enjoy beauty. Nature and social history are the two major environments for human survival and activities. In the social environment, there is truth, goodness and beauty, as well as falsehood, evil and ugliness. There is joy in social work, but also sadness and troubles. As an aesthetic object, the natural environment (except for disasters that should be avoided) brings infinite happiness to people with its pure, simple and colorful beauty, allowing people to gain harmony in life. Engels was deeply touched by this. He said: “Nature is magnificent. In order to take a break from the movement of history, I always run towards nature with admiration.” (“To George William Lamp”) “Lu”, see “The Complete Works of Marx and Engels”, Volume 39, Page 63) This shows that going to nature to accept the influence of beauty is the need for human life to relax and combine work and rest, so that the human brain can obtain mental health care and life can gain harmony. important way to exercise. Appreciating the beauty of nature, you can also get the huge appeal of beauty. It can cultivate temperament, purify the soul, make people forget about worries, eliminate distracting thoughts, and reach a pure and free spiritual realm. Engels had real experience and thought-provoking insights in this regard: “You grab the cable of the bow mast and look at the waves broken by the keel. They splash white foam and fly by far away. Above your head. You look at the turquoise sea in the distance. The waves are rolling and never-ending. The sunlight is reflected from countless flashing mirrors into your eyes. The turquoise sea water is like a blue mirror-like sky and the golden sun. Melt into wonderful colors – and all your worries, all your memories of earthly enemies and their machinations, will vanish, and you will dissolve into the proud consciousness of the free and infinite spirit.” “Landscape”, see (Marx and Sigurds on Art, Volume 4, page 393). Indeed, the beautiful images, spirit and style created by nature can make people open-minded and noble in character. Having a pure heart and cultivating beautiful sentiments are both expressed in Fan Zhongyan’s poem about seeing “spring and bright scenery” and feeling “relaxed and happy, forgetting all favors and disgrace”, and Liu Yuxi’s poem about “a crane lining the clouds in the clear sky”. Beautiful scenery is a testament to the touching nature. Therefore, traveling to nature to appreciate beauty is a great pleasure to beautify the soul and inspire artistic inspiration. Love of beauty is human nature, especially the love of natural beauty. Lu Xun said: “The sun rises at dawn. Regret, Yao Cao becomes a flower. If you are not an idiot, you will understand and be moved. “This reflects the objective fact that everyone loves natural beauty. Marx and Engels also vividly described this kind of beauty-loving nature of people: ” In the embrace of nature, the chains of the bourgeoisie are taken off, and Mary Flower can freely express her inherent nature, so she reveals such a vigorous interest in life, such rich feelings, and such a humane joy for nature. Crazy…” (“Holy Family”, see “The Complete Works of Marx and Engels”, Volume 2, page 217) Why does natural beauty have such a powerful charm that inspires people’s nature to love beauty? Because nature is beautiful, in addition to the objectivity of natural objects, it also has aesthetics The subjective feeling of the viewer is at work, and it is the objectification of human nature. It can be seen that the harmony between human nature and natural beauty is the essence of the pleasant effect of natural beauty, which is the long-term aesthetic appreciation of human beings. Nature formed by practice. Marx’s famous assertion that “labor creates beauty” also includes the meaning that labor creates aesthetic ability. He said: Human beings can feel beauty with their five senses, such as the ears can appreciate music and the eyes can feel it. The beauty of form is the result of long-term exposure to the beauty of the environment. People’s love for beauty is gradually formed and developed from generation to generation. Therefore, we should go more towards nature to activate the inherited love for beauty. While obtaining the spiritual food selflessly given by natural beauty, we can further improve human aesthetic ability and sublimate the value of life. We hope that people will take steps toward nature, embrace natural beauty, improve the cultural quality of appreciating beauty, and reshape people’s lives. Cultural image, and thereby promote the great cause of creating beauty.
2. Tourism and Human Civilization
What is tourism? The famous economist Yu Guangyuan believes: “Tourism is a short-term and special way of life for residents in modern society. The characteristics of this lifestyle are: remoteness, amateurism and enjoyment. “(Quoted from “Tourism Aesthetics” edited by Qiao Xiu) This kind of “enjoyment” is mainly the aesthetic enjoyment in tourism. With the degree of civilization,