A Comparative Study on Chinese and Western Classical Garden Arts

Abstract

The differences and identities of the arts of classical gardens between China and the West are compared in this paper. Due to the differences in natural conditions, historical origins, social environments, cultural backgrounds and religious factors, the gardens in China and the West developed in a diametrically opposite way from the very beginning. The former has been seeking natural beauty, and the later was in pursuit of artificial beauty. Even so, there are many identities, such as the identity of mankind, social identity and material identity, of the gardens between China and the West, which are confirmed by the authors according to the historical facts of exchange between the two. And now, facing the common problems of environment, they both are headed in the same direction towards the natural and ecological gardens, but by different routes. Key words: Chinese and Western garden arts, differences and similarities, general trend of garden making Resume: Vous trouverez par ce present les differences et les identites des arts des jardins chinois et europeens.En raison des differences dans les conditions naturelles , des origines historiques, des environnements sociaux, des contextes culturels et des facteurs religieux, les arts des jardins chinois et europeens ont connu du developpement de manieres absolument differente des le tout debut. Le precedent cherche a la beaute naturelle et le dernier poursuit une beaute artificielle. Cependant, ils possedent beaucoup comme identites des arts des jardins chinois et europeens telles ques celle de l’etre humain, sociale et materielle qui ont ete confirmees par les auteurs en fonction des echanges de facteurs historiques entre les deux. Pour le present, face aux probllemes communs environnementaux, ils s’orientent tous les deux dans la meme direction des jardins naturels et ecoloqiques, mais par de differents trajets. Mots cles: Arts des jardins chinois et europeens, differences et similaites, tendance generale de jadinage