What are the characteristics of the world's top three gardens? What are the similarities and differences between Chinese gardens and English gardens?

The world's top three gardens

Italian terrace garden features: (1) built on the hillside, according to the situation of the mountain into a terrace level, the formation of terrace gardens; (2) rigorous layout, there is a clear central axis through the whole garden; (3) the building is often located in the central axis, usually located in the highest level; (4) the water features, sculpture and other major decorations on the axis, in order to strengthen the perspective line; (5) focus on borrowed scenery and the application of perspective line; (6) water as the main body, forming a colorful water features; (7) plants in green tones, forming a colorful water features; (7) plants in green tones. The application of the line; (6) water as the main body, the formation of colorful water features; (7) plants to green as the tone, avoid brightly colored flowers, plant configurations on both sides of the central axis of the regular type, away from the central axis asymptotically natural type enhancement.

French classical garden features: (1) solemn and elegant style, showing the theme of the supremacy of the imperial power; (2) the garden is magnificent, the line of sight is open, with the characteristics of extroversion; (3) to the center of the building, and is usually located in the highest place; (4) flower beds, statues, fountains and pools are concentrated in the central axis; (5) the water features to the main static water, reflecting the vast, calm and far-reaching momentum; (6) more than the use of Broad-leaved trees, mainly planted in clusters, molded flower beds using more flowers.

British landscape garden features: (1) open and undulating terrain of the meadow; (2) natural planting of trees; (3) winding paths; (4) natural curved lakeshore.

The similarities and differences between Chinese gardens and English gardens

Similarities:

(1) Both Chinese and English landscaped gardens emphasize the beauty of nature, and both take nature as the source of creation.

(2) The same irregular natural garden.

(3) Chinese classical gardens and English landscape gardens are natural style.

(4) Flowers, trees and other plants are important materials and means for landscape gardening in China and Britain. Flowers and trees are applied to the natural beauty of the artistic criteria, trees take the form of irregular planting, clump planting, piece planting and so on. The edge of the forest floor of the clump planting and piece planting is also an irregular form, often play a role in separating the landscape, hide the role of the landscape, in order to increase the level of the scenery and changes.

Differences:

(1) China's landscape garden is good at the small in the big, the master of nature, but also in the nature and higher than nature, the British landscape garden can be in the nature, but because there is no clear intention to create a higher than the natural realm.

(2) Chinese style is a kind of nature, more imaginative. Chinese gardens pursue the "unity of man and nature" symbol of creativity. British natural landscape garden, is a kind of natural color, rational, objective realism, more expansive and vivid, the British Landscape Garden shows that the objective world is sure that the beauty of the Park Wild.

(3) The influence of the British landscape garden on the modern city is much more profound than that of the Chinese classical garden on the city. The sparsely wooded meadows it honors are still the basic vocabulary of modern city parks.

(4) Because of the different cultural backgrounds and national habits between the two, the differences are large. British gardens in general are larger than the area of the Chinese classical gardens, and the natural mountains and water as the base of the garden. The Chinese classical gardens, especially private gardens are smaller, the scene imitated in nature, that is, to refine the generalization of the techniques, with the power of artificial to reproduce the natural scenery, in order to achieve the "although made by people, just like the sky" of the mood.