Abstract

It was the thousands of years of China history that gave birth to the excellent traditional ideology and culture, and in the long history the Chinese Taoism came into being and gave continuously influence and heritage. The philosophical thoughts of “let nature take its course” run through and influence all periods and fields, including the profound impact of Chinese traditional landscape closely related to nature, and the ideological pursuit of Taoist traditional culture reflected in Chinese traditional landscape. The Taoist ideological and cultural language endows the garden art with unique spiritual connotation, and the garden art endows the symbolic meaning of the essence of Taoist ideology and culture to everything, they interact with each other and develop in harmony. Therefore, this paper proposes to express spiritual culture with natural pattern in the new Chinese landscape design, explores the symbolic design expression of traditional landscape under the influence of Taoist ideology and culture, and applies it to the new Chinese landscape design to find the design ideas with spiritual connotation while inheriting the traditional ideology and culture.

Highlights

  • From the linguistic perspective of Taoist traditional thoughts and culture, basing on the analysis of landscape design tracing from the traditional to the new Chinese stylish and the summarization of the existing research, this paper makes an analysis on traditional landscape with the summarization of its design methods and ideological essence, and puts forward that traditional landscape embodying the traditional thoughts and culture should be interpreted and applied in the new Chinese style landscape design to realize the heritage of ideology and culture and the innovation of design art, including the artistic techniques of advocating natural beauty and pursuing the simple, elegant spirit embodied in the new Chinese Style landscape design

  • Inspired by the design on objectives, elements, principles and methods proposed for new Chinese landscape, based on the understanding of the traditional Taoist thoughts of “The Greatest Virtue being Like water, Good for Everything”, this paper blends the design inspiration into the new Chinese landscape by using symbolic design expression to create a “pure land” endowed with the spirit and artistic conception of traditional culture

  • Applying the design elements with symbolic art into the “New Chinese Style” landscape design, it fully embodies the ideological connotation of Chinese traditional culture, creates the artistic life of “The Greatest Virtue being Like water, Good for Everything”, and inherits the basic principle of “reappear nature” and the spiritual connotation of “the union of heaven and human beings” in traditional Chinese landscape

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Summary

Introduction

This paper proposes to seek inspiration from nature and create landscape design endowed with cultural essence with the prerequisite that the functional requirement and visual aesthetics of modern people are satisfied, so that the artistic characteristics of Chinese Taoist ideology and culture will be inherited and embodied in the new Chinese landscape design. It proposes that under the influence of traditional ideology and culture, the symbolism of traditional “garden art” should be interpreted and applied in the new Chinese landscape design

Basic Overview
New Chinese Style Landscape Design
Design Principle Based on “The Union of Heaven and Human Beings”
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