The Miao nationality is a special nationality in Chinese history, which has a long history but suffered a lot. Its unique religious beliefs, customs, aesthetic concepts and so on have formed the most unique cultural landscape of the Miao nationality. Religious belief is not only the origin of primitive aesthetic culture, but also the core of Miao people's spiritual life. Religion integrates the long history, culture, custom and art of Miao nationality, and forms its unique aesthetic characteristics through the rituals, costumes, songs and dances in daily life, festivals and sacrifices. It transmits a strong and profound aesthetic style, and becomes the most sacred core force to guide the spirit and soul of Miao people. The purpose of this paper is to study the interaction between Miao aesthetic culture and religion from the perspective of ecological aesthetics. This paper uses literature review method and interdisciplinary method to summarize the Miao religious culture, uses questionnaire survey French field work method, and studies the interaction between Miao aesthetic culture and religion from the perspective of ecological aesthetics. This paper analyzes the religious implication, religious belief and aesthetic consciousness in ecological aesthetics. Among them, religious culture has the biggest influence on festival celebration, accounting for 73%, and the religious beauty accounts for 81%. The research results show that the religious belief of Miao nationality has a crucial and decisive catalytic effect on the formation of aesthetic concept of Miao nationality. With time, the religious belief of Miao nationality has played an important and decisive role in promoting the formation of aesthetic concept of Miao nationality the accumulation has become the core of Miao culture.

Anyu Yang. The Interaction between Miao Aesthetic Culture and Religion from the Perspective of Ecological Aesthetics. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2021), Vol. 3, Issue 16: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2021.031601.

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