Abstract
The long standing Chinese Taoism, whose philosophical thought of “heaven and earth co-exist in harmony, and united with everything” enriches all of the creations. Chinese traditional landscape, inheriting and profiting from excellent philosophical ideas, embodies the value of harmonious coexistence between human and nature, by the essence of “adapting to local conditions and leaning on the trend”. The new Chinese style landscape, belonging to an evolution based on traditional design, lays great emphasis on spiritual connotation of “the union of heaven and human beings”. Taking residential landscaping design project as an example, this paper analyses the expressive mode of Chinese style landscape design based on Taoist thought and culture, and aims to apply traditional artistic style into modern design and find the way to express landscape design.
Highlights
Ever Zhuangzi said “human from the nature; heaven from the nature ” [1], which means that the human beings originate from nature, and the universe originates from nature
Taking residential landscaping design project as an example, this paper analyses the expressive mode of Chinese style landscape design based on Taoist thought and culture, and aims to apply traditional artistic style into modern design and find the way to express landscape design
Laozi said “For I am abstracted from the world, the world from nature, nature from the way, and the way from what is beneath abstraction” [2], which indicates the connection between human beings and nature, that is to achieve the harmony and unity between human beings and nature, we have to conform to the law of nature
Summary
Ever Zhuangzi said “human from the nature; heaven from the nature ” [1], which means that the human beings originate from nature, and the universe originates from nature. The traditional landscape space need to be considered the satisfaction of human need, and the relationship between heaven, earth and human, that is to say the harmony of human, architecture and environment [3] This spirit of “the union of heaven and human beings”, as the highest realm pursued by garden art, perfectly embodied in Chinese style landscape design, which is inspired from the culture originating from nature and superior to nature permeated into all of the garden styles. In this residential landscape design, it is the design expression of “reappeared natural style” from the traditional Chinese Taoist thought “originating from nature, integrating with nature”. Chinese style landscape lays stress on the nature and the natural beauty in the creation of layout and the allocation of buildings, landscapes and plants
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