Describe the basic characteristics of an excellent classical garden

Chinese classical gardens, in its long history of development, formed its own unique style, and still for the western garden experts to wonder. Its gardening skills are mainly manifested in the garden's spatial organization, compartmentalization form, garden landscaping, the pursuit of nature and many other aspects of aesthetic orientation. Recognize these basic features and garden techniques, help us to creatively modern form to express the essence of classical garden attributes and natural charm.

1, winding paths, rich and varied spatial segregation

Classical Chinese gardens and Western classical gardens and even contemporary Western landscape design, in the spatial form of the biggest difference is its spatial organization and segregation form. Classical Chinese gardens pursue the paths of seclusion, is "no road to the end of the mountain, a village in the darkness" of "another cave". That is, the flexible organization of space, space size combined with the size of the space, the space to convert the unexpected fun. This is a significant feature of classical Chinese gardens, but also worthy of today's community environment design to fully draw on the important garden techniques.

2, small and large, skillful in the borrowed landscape

Small and large, skillful in the borrowed, is a classical garden in the square inch will be able to embody the characteristics of nature's style, the formation of bonsai-like realistic effect. Such as stone rockery performance of the mountains, to trickle the performance of the streams and mountain streams, to clumps of bamboo performance of fresh nature. The skillful borrowing is also an important means of landscape composition. The so-called "due to borrow", mainly to take full advantage of a local environment outside the garden of other space landscape resources for my use, such as the outside world's lakes and mountains through a certain amount of space treatment will be introduced into the garden; or will be adjacent to the space of the landscape, through the leakage of the window, the doorway, or other forms of virtual separation, will be introduced into their own space to increase the depth of the space, or produce a seemingly penetration is not a natural means of landscape. Depth of field, or to produce seemingly non-transparent, hidden landscape effect; and such as the reflection in the water, is another form of performance of borrowed landscape ..... The skillful use of these borrowing techniques, is a major feature of the Chinese classical garden.

3, "although made by man, just like from heaven" of the natural charm

This is a very different aesthetic orientation from Western gardens (including Western modern landscape design). Western gardens are the pursuit of orderly, neat and tidy artificial beauty, geometric pattern beauty; while the pursuit of classical Chinese gardens is "although made by man, just like from heaven" of natural beauty. This can be said to be a major attribute of the nature of the classical Chinese garden. Of course, this "natural beauty", is humanized nature, is carefully designed "although made by man" nature. Its landscape creation, green combination, the composition of its attractions, space scale, have been repeatedly scrutinized, deliberately. However, it does not show, "like from heaven". This out of the spirit, is the highest realm of classical Chinese gardens, but also worth learning from us today, a major advantage.

4, "superimposed mountains and water, no water is not a garden" landscape features

This is a classical Chinese garden, in the way the garden and the performance of a significant feature of the form. Almost all of China's classical gardens, are "mountains" and "water", just the size and specific form of the different. Stacked mountains, stone masonry, soil construction, soil and stone combination; water, streams, streams, pools, pools, lakes, waterfalls and other forms of imitation of nature. Small and exquisite, the pursuit of resemblance, is an important feature of the landscape landscape of classical Chinese gardens. "No water no garden", is an ancient Chinese literati and gardening connoisseurs of its garden features and a figurative generalization of the way the garden is constructed. That is, no landscape is not a garden. The formation of this feature, and the ancients of the "wise man happy water", the water has the spirit, water metaphor for wealth, as well as live because of the aesthetic interest and ideological concepts of water directly related. The performance of the water features are likewise imitation of nature, and often criss-crossed with natural rocks for its barge, as the mountain streams; often echo its spatial separation, the formation of a meandering, when wide, when the narrow stream Jing form, throughout the scenic area space, constituting a piece of simulation of the landscape with its own special features.