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How to view the relationship between man and nature in Hayao Miyazaki’s works

Miyazaki Hayao is a legend in the animation industry. He is the spiritual pillar of three generations of Japanese painters and the first thinker to elevate animation to a humanistic level. The audience for his animated films is not limited to children, but spans all age groups. He has gained worldwide recognition and is called "Akira Kurosawa in the animation industry" by Disney in the United States. Hayao Miyazaki's films not only make full use of the characteristics of the animated film form to create a magical and rich imagination space, but more importantly, he gives the works extremely profound ideological themes, such as growth and innocence, war and peace, man and nature, etc. Not only does his work gain an appreciation that is often unmatched by real-life movies, but it also demonstrates his thinking on various social reality issues that are in line with the pulse of the times.

In today's era when the number of humans is expanding and the ecology is becoming more and more severe, we must think carefully about the relationship between humans and nature. How to allow humans and ecology to exist harmoniously is both modern humans and us. It is an issue that future generations must take seriously, and this issue is explored in most of Miyazaki's works.

The relationship between man and nature in Hayao Miyazaki's animated films is not static, but has gone through three

main stages. The first stage is to praise the beauty of nature and criticize mankind's destruction of nature from the perspective of "anti-anthropocentrism". Representative works include "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" (1984), "Castle in the Sky" (1986), "Dragon" "Cat" (1988); the second stage is a pessimistic and impatient attitude towards the antagonism between man and nature when facing the competition for survival. Representative works include "The Changing Tanuki" (1994) and "Princess Mononoke" (1997) In the third stage, he opens his heart and looks forward to the harmonious union between man and nature. His representative work is "The Goldfish Princess on the Cliff" (2008).

2. Anti-anthropocentrism

"Anti-anthropocentrism" is a concept opposite to "anthropocentrism". "Anthropocentrism" is always adopted as a value and value scale. It takes human interests as the origin of value and the basis for moral evaluation. Human beings, and only humans, are the subjects of value judgment. Human beings used to respect nature, but later with the development of human technology, human beings had the ambition and ambition to conquer nature, which caused great damage to nature. Hayao Miyazaki, who deeply loves nature, feels very sad about this. In his view, human beings' various sins are unforgivable. He hopes that human beings can cherish the beautiful nature and return to the embrace of nature.