方志的美学归属应为社会美与自然美的统一；其美学价值主要在于展示美的内容，达到美的境界，给人美的享受，留下可资借鉴的审美准则；方志美的实践源头大致从战国时期的《山海经》开始，历代方志名家同时又多是文学美学大师；方志美的主要形态包括博物美、山川美、风俗美、真实美、体例美等，是多样性的统一体。 The aesthetic affiliation of the chorography should be the unification of the social beauty and the natural beauty. Its aesthetic value mainly lies in displaying the content of the beauty, reaching the realm of beauty, giving the enjoyment of the beauty and leaving the aesthetic criteria available for reference. Since the beginning of Shan Hai Jing, most of the famous writers of ancient Chronicles have been mostly masters of literature aesthetics. The main forms of Fang Zhi Mei include beauty of museums, beauty of mountains and rivers, beauty of customs, beauty of the real beauty and beauty of style. They are the unity of diversity.