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Talking about the characteristics of modern Chinese gardens and their development

The trend of global economic integration has brought the culture and art of all nationalities to the direction of monolithic development as well. In this era of history, culture, art, science and technology are full of references, how the Chinese modern garden can form a garden culture that has the characteristics of the local natural culture and meets the trend of international development is a challenge in front of every gardener.

1 Characteristics of Modern Chinese Gardens

Gardens are alive, and their essence is a purely spiritual activity in pursuit of pleasure. The Chinese flavor of traditional Chinese gardens is shown

in the following aspects:

1.1 Exquisite details. Traditional gardens are often localized to form a complete whole. Localized refinement, and can set zero for the whole, the performance is more exquisite.

1.2 Fluent layout. Chinese traditional garden layout and the whole garden content, form, engineering technology and culture and art into one, follow the starting, bearing, turn, and the chapter law, so that the landscape step by step, but also to make up for the defects of the site is good. The site of the vast does not show empty (Yuanmingyuan), narrow does not show congestion (residual grain garden), long and narrow does not show redundant (Nanjing Hsu Garden), flat and broad does not show short (Beihai Jingxinzhai).

1.3 space division implicit. Traditional Chinese gardens often the nature of the space gradually unfolded, free and flexible spatial separation. Using spatial contrast, penetration techniques to make the scenery show levels.

1.4 Pursuit of the beauty of the mood. The aesthetic psychological rhythm of traditional Chinese gardens favors gentle, implicit and coherent, and pursues a natural interest, a kind of fresh and natural serenity, and a kind of realm of beauty that harmonizes the natural environment with the real life.

2 Difference between traditional Chinese gardens and modern gardens

However, due to the historical limitations of natural culture, the ancient people's understanding of natural culture is stuck in the form, staying more in the artistic reproduction of natural landscapes and lack of understanding of the causes of the landscapes and the ecological function of the landscapes, which is neglected. People strive to give the scenery with symbolic meaning, historical allusions or hieroglyphic associations, which is essentially different from the modern understanding of natural culture. The cultural attributes of modern gardens are more reflected in the natural elements such as water system, soil and living things, as well as the necessity and value of the existence of various gardening materials themselves. Although the understanding of nature in traditional Chinese gardens appears to be superficial and programmed, the simple natural viewpoints and plain natural atmosphere of traditional gardens are still a great inspiration for modern garden design. The simple and unadorned natural elements in traditional Chinese gardens satisfy people's material needs with architectural space and satisfy people's psychological needs with natural landscapes. The natural space composed of natural rocks, water, vegetation, etc., combined with the natural landscape of clear wind and moon, tree shadows, mountain streams and springs, and misty rain, constitute a relaxing and pleasant garden atmosphere. And China's modern garden landscape design to vignettes, sculpture and other artificial elements as the center of gravity, soil, water, terrain, plants and animals, and other natural elements have become a gleaned embellishments, psychological vanity is better than material satisfaction. Modern designers even more superficial and vague understanding of nature, turn to the pursuit of architectural vignettes, artistic sculpture contains symbolic significance, with hieroglyphic or metaphorical techniques, the artificial landscape and natural scenery farfetched together.

3 China's modern garden is the inheritance and development of China's traditional gardens with the development of science and technology, people's understanding of nature is gradually deep, modern gardens should carry forward the respect for nature's garden traditions, and to change the focus on the natural form of the natural function of the formalist approach. Modern garden design takes nature as the main body, is based on the natural law of the damaged nature for artificial remediation, or to reduce the artificial interference with nature, the formation of natural vitality of human activity space. The concept of naturalized design put forward by modern garden

is different from the traditional concept of imitating nature, which is to establish a new connection between the original nature and the constructed nature, so that the constructed nature really has the function and attribute of nature. Therefore, the re-naturalization of the landscape should not remain in the simulation of the landscape type form, but to establish the landscape evolution process in line with the laws of nature. Modern landscape design aims to protect and restore the natural characteristics of the site, emphasizing the sustainable use of natural resources to serve people. The process of garden design is the process of recognizing nature with the goal of protecting, restoring and presenting the territorial landscape of the territory. Therefore, modern landscape design should adopt scientific classification and identification methods, make an in-depth and detailed evaluation of the natural conditions of the site, and use mature experience, appropriate materials and techniques to explore and discover the evolutionary capacity of the site itself. Therefore, under the development trend of international garden design guided by ecological concepts and dominated by natural culture, Chinese gardens can only develop and mature and make due contribution to the development of international garden culture by integrating into it and interpreting local natural landscape attributes and natural cultural characteristics.