Chinese garden design and its characteristics

Chinese gardens are famous for their depth and subtlety, twists and turns, and the reason for this is nothing other than the separation and combination of garden spaces. The so-called separation of landscape is to use landscape, plants, buildings and vignettes to some extent to separate the line of sight or channel, resulting in a garden within a garden, a landscape within a landscape, an island within an island. The role of sub-scene is to increase the quantity and quality of the scenery, so that the garden landscape change, colorful and fascinating. Scenic can narrow the attention of visitors to a certain range of space, so that they can concentrate on the spirit of detailed viewing, according to the function and landscape effect of the different, can be divided into the barrier landscape and landscape.

Barrier landscape is used in the garden to block the line of sight, prompting the line of sight to shift the direction of the barrier. Barrier landscape is often used for the entrance to the garden to become a scene, located in the prologue of the garden landscape, increase the garden space level, the good scenery in the garden to hidden obstacles, to achieve the artistic effect of darkness and light. Barrier landscape due to different materials can be divided into rock barriers, courtyard barriers, shadow wall barriers, bushes, tree groups or a combination of several.

Partition landscape is used to divide the garden space or scenic spots. Separation of landscape materials are various forms of walls, buildings, plants, rockeries, islands, water and so on. Separation of the way there are real separation, virtual separation and virtual separation.