审美意识是社会意识的一个重要组成部分,它是客观存在的审美对象在人们头脑中的创造性的反映,是广义的“美感”,它包括审美趣味、审美能力、审美感受等等。一个民族舞蹈审美意识既有比较稳定的传承性,又由于时代和社会等多种原因有其各不同的变异性,从土家族舞蹈发展的历史可以清晰地看出这种民族审美习惯的传承性即相对的稳定性和不同历史时期、不同社会状况的变化和变异性。 Aesthetic consciousness is an important part of social consciousness. It is a creative reflection of objective aesthetic objects in people’s minds. It is a broad sense of “beauty” which includes aesthetic taste, aesthetic ability, aesthetic feeling and so on. Aesthetic awareness of a national dance has both relatively stable inheritance and various variability due to various reasons such as the times and the society. It can be clearly seen from the history of Tujia dance development that the inheritance of this national aesthetic habit That is, the relative stability and different historical periods, changes in social conditions and variability.