What is the purpose of China classical gardens?

Mr. Zhu Guangqian, a master of fine arts, once said: Fine arts is a realm that helps us transcend reality and seek comfort and ideals. Garden art is such an art that combines the artistic treatment and function of the environment, and it is a comprehensive art that integrates various arts.

China classical garden art is famous for its elegance and exquisiteness. The gardening purposes of China classical gardens include natural beauty, architectural beauty and cultural beauty.

The construction of gardens in China consists of five elements: mountain building, pond management, architecture, painting and calligraphy. And architecture is one of the important elements to express nature. Just like Shanglin Garden in Qin and Han Dynasties, it belongs to the royal garden. This is a palace garden, which was expanded by Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, on an old garden site in the Qin Dynasty in the second year of Jianyuan (BC 138). It's huge and has many palaces. It spans 300 miles and has more than 2000 kinds of famous fruits and trees. Shanglinyuan has not only beautiful natural scenery, but also beautiful palaces. Among them, it is a garden with a variety of life contents, which fully shows the beauty of nature and architecture. It is a typical palace in Qin and Han Dynasties.

Cultural beauty is the essence and core of China gardens. China Gardens should be said to be "literati gardens", with the leading ideology of literati, and its appearance features poetic and picturesque, seeking to avoid the hubbub and send feelings to the mountains and rivers.

The representative classical gardens in China are Suzhou Garden and Huangjiayuan Forest.

Western Asian gardens mainly refer to Babylon. Gardens of Egypt and ancient Persia. In the process of development and evolution, European gardens have absorbed more Western Asian styles, borrowed from each other and infiltrated each other, and finally formed their own "regular and orderly" garden art characteristics. Its gardening purpose is rigorous, the planning is square, the cutting is neat, and the regular canal system layout is even, orderly and magnificent.

The artistic features of classical gardens in China are as follows:

1. Surrounded by mountains and waters, famous trees and flowers, comprehensive art;

2. Pursue conception, generalize and refine, and strive for similar spirit.

3. The landscape is subtle, interesting and enlightening.

4. Dynamic layout is like a picture scroll, which you can never get tired of.

5. Write scenes with emotion, express feelings with scenes, and blend scenes.

6. The north and south gardens are integrated and harmonious.

The gardening art of western gardens is characterized by "integrity, harmony and uniqueness", completely rejecting nature, striving to embody rigorous rationality and developing meticulously according to pure geometric structure and mathematical relationship. Forcing nature to accept the law of symmetry has become the basic creed of western gardening art.