关键词: 石林, 美学价值, 科学价值, 景观结构, 美感度

Abstract:

Shilin in Yunnan Province of China has the most typical and integrated sword-like karst landforms across the world continental area. It has served as the special term representative of such kind of geomorphology. Shilin area is not only the national conservation area of karst landscape, but also the national scenery spot. As a scenery spot, Shilin landscape enjoys the praise of marvelous spectacle on earth and becomes the focus of aesthetics. On the basis of Chinese traditional aesthetic theory of natural landscape and the research result concerning modern geology and geomorphology, this article takes the Shilin landscape as the aesthetic object, discusses and summaries its spatial structure and visual aesthetic characteristics,identifies the component elements making up the Shilin landscape and the factors which influence the aesthetic value. Natural landscape has always been the aesthetic object of the people, there are countless descriptions of the same landscape, but however, great differences exist in the descriptions of the same landscape. Although the issue of how to assess the aesthetic value of natural landscape has been the concern of the people for a long period of time,no consensus opinion has so far been reached. We believe that the disagreement on the identification of the evaluation elements is the key to the issue. The landscape evaluation method proposed in this article, which is to combine the landscape's scientific cause of formation, scientific value and beauty of modality together, to link the experts' evaluation with the systematic investigation and analysis, will definitely promote the in-depth study of the aesthetic value of natural landscape.

Key words: Shilin, aesthetic value, scientific value, landscape structure, aesthetic degree