Pursuing Wilderness Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Cities

Nowadays, the urbanization process is confronted with many problems. In the context of ecological civilization, cities have replaced the countryside to become the main human settlements of the Chinese people. Ecological civilization advocates the reconstruction of the relationship between man and nature. Thus, the wilderness landscape, as the truest ecological nature, should be an important experience object and aesthetic object of people living in cities. The wilderness philosophy has gradually become an important part of the philosophical thinking due to its awareness of unexpected damage to the human's living homeland and its profound reflection on the current production and life styles. In today's cities, the value of wilderness should be reassessed, and the landscape of wilderness should be re-enchanted. The city’s call to the wilderness, the acceptance of urban aesthetics to the wilderness, are major missions of China's urban and rural sustainable construction today. We are advocating a kind of aesthetics in the ecological civilization, which is the wilderness aesthetics. The construction of wilderness aesthetics is becoming mature.