What is the difference between Chinese classical gardens and Western gardens?

1, the origin of time is not the same:

China's garden art, if from Yin, Zhou era 囿囿's emergence of counting, so far there are more than 3,000 years of history, is one of the world's earliest origins of the art of gardening.

Western gardens, the world's earliest gardens can be traced back to the 16th century B.C. in Egypt, from the ancient tomb paintings can be seen in the priests and ministers of the mansion garden to take the square and straight planning, the rules of the sinks and neatly planted. The Assyrian hunting gardens of Western Asia evolved into pleasure groves.

2, artistic style is not the same:

Chinese gardens to man and nature, "harmony" of the beauty of the tone.

Western garden art style focuses on the performance of man and nature's confrontation with the beauty of the religious architecture of the empty, closed internal space so that people produce religious passion and ecstasy.

3, the building materials used in gardening are not the same:

Traditional Chinese buildings are mainly made of earth and wood, and Western classical buildings are mainly made of stone.

Garden is a kind of art that people use their own hands to create scenery for the convenience of tour and entertainment. Due to the different understanding and preference of people of different nationalities and regions for landscapes, different styles of gardens have emerged. Summarized, the world's gardens can be divided into three systems - European gardens, West Asian gardens and Chinese gardens.

China's gardens, with a long history, it that "although made by people, like from heaven" principle of art, the integration of traditional architecture, literature, painting and calligraphy, carving and crafts and other arts in a furnace of the comprehensive characteristics of the world's gardens in the history of the unique, enjoys a high position.

Expanded Information:

p>China's architecture, from ancient palaces to modern general housing, the vast majority is symmetrical, how the left, how the right. Suzhou garden can never pay attention to symmetry, as if deliberately avoided. The east side has a pavilion or a corridor, the west side will never come to an identical pavilion or a corridor of the same.

With the picture to compare, symmetrical building is pattern painting, not art painting, while the garden is art painting, art painting requires natural interest, is not concerned about symmetry.

China's natural landscape garden art, for our nation's unique cultural traditions of outstanding architecture, in the process of long-term historical development has accumulated a wealth of gardening theory and creative practice experience.

In order to inherit and carry forward the achievements of the motherland's classical garden art, especially with the improvement of the people's material and cultural standard of living, urban and rural construction is bound to fully reflect the material and spiritual needs of the working people so that people have a beautiful recuperation, rest, and cultural and recreational activities of the place, it is inevitable that the construction of gardens.

With the development of tourism, landscape gardening development and construction will also be prosperous and developed, the development of natural scenic resources is also bound to accelerate the pace.

Italy, France, Britain's gardening art is a typical representative of Western garden art, although they belong to the Western garden art system, with many **** the same characteristics, but due to a variety of natural and social conditions of the constraints, but also showed a different style. But in general the western garden art and Chinese garden art is very different.

The art of gardening in Western gardens, completely rejecting nature, seeks to embody rigorous rationality, meticulously developed in accordance with pure geometric structures and mathematical relationships. "Forcing nature to accept the law of proportionality" has become the basic tenet of Western gardening art.

Western garden art puts forward "integrity, harmony, distinctive" three elements, the pursuit of rigorous rationality. Since ancient times, Europeans have been inclined to explore the inner regularity of things, and like to raise questions and solve problems in a clear way to form a clear understanding.

This habit of thinking is expressed in the aesthetic is symmetry, balance and order, and symmetry, balance and order can be determined by simple number and geometric relationships. As the classical architectural authority Grand Blonde said: "It is the proportion that determines beauty and elegance, and it must be formulated mathematically as an eternal, stable rule", which is the highest aesthetic standard of the Western art of gardening.

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