先秦时期是中华民族的先民在中华大地上筚路蓝缕、开疆扩土、探索生态环境并协调人与自然关系的早期阶段.在该阶段,中华大地优越的生境保证了先民的稳态延续,而先民在与纷繁的自然环境互动的同时也创造了灿烂的生态文化.如钻木取火和刀耕火种提高了生计水平,治水保卫了生境安全,历法和节气提高了人们对自然规律的掌握,生态保护律法减小了对环境的破坏力度,专门的生态论著则使生态保护上升到哲学的高度等.而其中蕴含的敬畏自然、艰苦探索、遵德循礼、居安思危的生态理念维护了先秦时期人与自然的和谐共生.这些生态文化尽管历史久远,但是仍对我国新时代生态文明建设留下了宝贵的精神财富,赋予了诸多参考和借鉴的意义.
The Pre-Qin period was the early stage in which Chinese ancestors forged ahead,expanded territory,explored the ecological environment and coordinated the relationship between man and nature.The superior habitat on the land of China ensured the steady continuation for our ancestors,who had created splendid ecological culture while interacting with the complicated natural environment.Drilling wood for fire and slash-and-burn cultivation have improved livelihoods,water control have kept a safe habitat,calendars and solar terms have improved people's understanding of natural laws,ecological protection laws have reduced the damage to the environment,and works on ecology have elevated ecological protection to a philosophical level,in which ecological concepts of reverence for nature,arduous exploration,adherence to ethics and etiquette,and being vigilant in times of peace and danger contained in it have maintained the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature in the pre Qin period.Although many years has elapsed,they have provided valuable spiritual wealth for China's ecological civilization construction in the new era,endowing it with much reference and significance.