What is a garden?

Garden refers to the natural environment and leisure environment specially cultivated.

In a certain area, the beautiful natural environment and recreational environment created by means of engineering technology and artistic means, such as transforming the terrain, planting flowers and trees, building buildings and arranging garden roads, are called gardens. It is unique among the traditional buildings in China, and the classical garden architecture has made great achievements. As an art form in China traditional culture, it is deeply influenced by traditional ritual and music culture. Through the terrain, landscape, architecture, flowers and trees as the carrier, the spiritual culture of human subject is set off.

There are many denotative concepts in gardens, such as garden community, garden street, garden city, national garden county and so on. Modern life style and living environment have urgent functional and artistic requirements for gardens, which play an increasingly important role in our modern life and people's future development direction.

Basic characteristics of classical gardens in China;

1. The flooding landscape type of Moshan Mountain and the native landscape type composed of natural resources such as topography, hydrogeology and native plants are the main components of the space of China classical gardens. The exquisite craftsmanship of local materials and the artistic expression of garden landscape are one of the main features of my traditional gardens in China. The classical gardens in China emphasize that although they are made by people, they are natural and superior to nature, and they are people's understanding and feelings about nature.

2. Ideal environment suitable for human habitation, pursue ideal human habitation environment and create healthy, comfortable, fresh and pleasant microclimate conditions. Because the living environment in ancient China was relatively harsh, China classical garden landscaping paid great attention to the improvement of microclimate conditions, in order to create a more comfortable and pleasant environment, such as the layout of mountains and rivers, the planting of plants, the construction of pavilions and pavilions, etc. , are based on light and shadow, airflow, temperature and other factors affecting human comfort, forming a comfortable and pleasant ideal living environment.

3. Skillful at borrowing the visual boundary of the landscape, not limited to the courtyard, borrowing the landscape to expand the visual boundary of the space, making the garden landscape connect with the external natural landscape and echo each other, creating a holistic garden landscape. Whether moving or watching, you can see beautiful scenery and pursue unlimited spatial visual effects.