New Understanding of History and Culture from the View of Forest: Review on the Fifth Session of Forest Culture Seminar

The Fifth Session of Forest Culture Seminar was held inHailar District of Hulunbeier City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in July 2013, with Beijing Forestry University, IWCS (International Wood Culture Society), and AGA(Asia Green-Culture Association) being the co-organizers. The reports presented in the seminar interprete history and modern forest culture from the view of forest, provide broad research ideas for forest culture and human's sustainable development, and fully embody four foundermental characteristics of forest culture, i. e. ecological, national, regional and humanity characters. Forest has subtle influence on nature, history and culture. Forest culture is the core content of ecological culture, and it is a phenomenon of civilization formed in the long-term coexistence of human being and forest.