Chinese Garden Design Features
2008-08-05

                                                                                                                                               Chinese Garden Design Features As the development of people's living standards, higher living environment are also required. There are more and more need for the perfect, beautiful unique landscape and green land. Therefore, it is necessary for us to know the Chinese garden design features. Chinese garden design skill Chinese garden design always tries to reproduce the natural landscape as the basic design principles. It pursues the architecture, the natural harmony and achieves "Harmony" effect. But it is not simply imitate, "this is natural, and higher than the natural". This kind of design ingeniously combines the natural beauty and artificial beauty. This idea in gardening create is a concrete manifestation of "the light of local conditions", "close to the mountains on the potential". Chinese garden design is good at using the existing natural conditions and reflecting the respect for nature. It stresses the relationship between the constructions, rather than on building monomer, which makes the courtyard between the buildings become the important point in the garden design. Chinese garden design is ever-changing tactics. The hills and water are very important. Regardless of north or south or size, once there is a garden, there must be rocks. Equally, if possible water must be run into the garden. The difference between the natural landscapes and gardens is that the hills and water in the garden not only should look like the natural scenery but also can express emotion. In addition to landscape rocks can be used as the theme of embellished space, hills are usually used to divide a large space into several small spaces. The separated parts are often rolling each other, not to be empty or monotonous. And hill can still block the view from space. Even rocks can also be used to stack into various forms of roads, which is rich in classical garden creations. The same as rocks, water is also one of the basic elements in gardens. Water in gardens can be divided into centralized and decentralized forms from the layout. And through this the garden may form a situation that sometimes move and sometimes be quiet. Concentrated and calm water are often for many small and medium-sized yards. Its features are: the whole garden make pond as the center, then buildings are built along the pool. Through this the garden can form a centripetal, cohesive pattern. This arrangement will enable a limited form to open space with the feeling. For large and medium-sized courtyard also focus on water, but the pool had better set in the side yard. This would vacate space for large heap rocks to form hills and create a pattern that the landscape surrounded by the water. The opposite of concentration of water is distributed water. It always divides the whole surface of water into numerous smaller parts. And the shape of the pool is always irregular to reproduce the natural water scene. In the garden, running streams are the artistic describe for the natural streams. They are mostly wide not narrow, straight not bowed. Also they should seek changes to create a feeling of rhythm. Particularly with the combination of rocks, they can create a deep reservoir of hidden fun. Comparison between Chinese garden and Western garden Chinese garden is a special kind that people are reluctant to leave the nature and express the love to the nature and they built the garden. Its artistic qualities are deeply influenced by China's Taoism, which is their natural meaning, in other words is to attach importance to natural and suppress artificial. It stressed to show great respect to nature. "Although the things are made by people, they look like create by natural.” "This is natural, but higher than the natural". The design of Western-style garden is showing strong performance to go beyond the natural. It stresses that the transformation of the natural environment. All tidy, balanced symmetry, with a clear axis guide, emphasis on geometric patterns, even the flowers and trees are pruned in exactly the side. In short, everything will be force to the strict collection. It can be said to be extended outside the building functional. Chinese garden is not based on "rational". It is often full of the author's spiritual feelings. The West of "geometric aesthetic standards" in the Chinese garden is invisible. The future of Chinese gardens China's traditional gardening art is charming. Regardless of whom he is, as long as visit he will be more or less infected. Now, cultural exchanges between East and West are frequently, and they influence each other deeper and deeper. Pure forms of classical Chinese garden cease to exist. You may not see the promenade in the rain. You may not have a taste of "stay near the lotus pool and listen to the sound of rain". But some of its essence has stayed." They exist in the garden from old to modern times and surprise the whole world. The future of Chinese garden development is bright. It needs more designers to explore its marrows.