中华民族五千多年文明的发展与传统生态文化的延绵有着直接关系。传承和弘扬传统生态智慧、生态思想，赋予其现代内涵，吸收其合理成分，对我国生态文明建设、培养当代生态文化有重要意义。在生态文明建设大背景下，本书通过对中国古代环境资源法律思想和制度的梳理与解读，力图挖掘中国传统生态法律文化的核心价值和精髓，促进全社会对传统生态法律文化核心观念和基本特征的认知与理解，为优秀传统生态文化的传承、发展与创新提供历史基础。

The development of the Chinese nation's civilization of more than 5,000 years is directly related to the continuation of traditional ecological culture. Inheriting and carrying forward traditional ecological wisdom and ecological thinking, giving them modern connotations and absorbing their reasonable components is of great significance to the construction of China's ecological civilization and the cultivation of contemporary ecological culture. In the context of ecological civilization construction, this book strives to explore the core values and essence of traditional Chinese ecological legal culture through the combing and interpretation of ancient Chinese environmental and resource legal ideas and systems, promote the whole society's cognition and understanding of the core concepts and basic characteristics of traditional ecological legal culture, and provide a historical foundation for the inheritance, development and innovation of excellent traditional ecological culture.（AI翻译）