Western garden

Western gardens are cheerful, lively, regular, neat, luxurious, warm and passionate, and sometimes even pay attention to ostentation and extravagance regardless of luxury. Ancient Greek philosophers praised "order is beautiful". They think that the wild nature is not domesticated, and the plant form that fully reflects the artificial modeling is beautiful, so they trim the plant form into a regular geometric form, and the roads in the park are neat and straight. /kloc-Before the 0/8th century, the western classical garden landscape was displayed symmetrically along the central axis. From manor houses in ancient Greece and Rome, to terrace gardens in Renaissance Italy, and then to Versailles in France, there is a complete central axis system in planning and design. Gorgeous sculpture fountains such as Poseidon, Saturnalia, Dionysus, Flower God, Apollo, Cupid, Venus and Mount Shui Ze are placed in the square with intersecting axes, and the theme of garden art is theistic "human beauty". Broad central avenue, including sculpture fountains and pools, hedges trimmed into geometric shapes, large open and flat lawns, and trees planted in rows. Terrain, pool, waterfall and fountain are all artificial geometric shapes, and the whole garden landscape is an "artificial decorative painting". The dominant idea in the creation of western classical gardens is to take man as the center of nature, and nature must be transformed according to the order, rules, organization and pattern in people's minds. The conquest of man's transcendence over nature is reflected in the form of symmetry rules of the central axis, and man-made geometric landscape transcends all nature. The buildings, lawns and trees in the garden pay attention to integrity and logic, and achieve the harmony and perfection of numbers with the combination of geometric shapes, as the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras said: "The whole celestial body and the universe are a kind of harmony, a kind of number." Western gardens are open gardens and a "paradise" enjoyed by most people. They emphasize the unobstructed view and pursue the beauty of pattern, artificiality, transformation and conquest.

It can be seen that oriental gardens are basically freehand and intuitive, emphasizing nature, emotion, imagination and association, and emphasizing the charm of "endless words and endless meanings" and "words here and intentions there"; On the other hand, western gardens are basically realistic, rational and objective, emphasizing graphics, labor, order and law, and bringing gardens into a rigorous, serious and meticulous scientific category with a natural respect for rational thinking.