What is the symbolism and culture of water?

Water symbolism: Representing opportunities and prospects, people usually use water as resources, wealth and opportunities. Represent endless things or emotions, the water seems endless, so poets, often use it to express those unbreakable things emotions, such as longing.

Water Culture: The material form of water culture, mainly including the transformed rivers and lakes, water technology, water management tools, water conservancy projects. From Dujiangyan, Lingqu, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and other modern water conservancy projects, the design, construction, modeling, craftsmanship and role of all the water conservancy projects, are cohesive with the knowledge, wisdom and creativity of people in different times.

The institutional form of water culture includes water-related laws and regulations, customs, religious ceremonies and social organizations. Spiritual form of water culture, including water-related ideology, values, industrial spirit, scientific works and literature and art.

The influence of water:

Traditional Chinese aesthetics, permeated by a strong "water spirit". Zhuzi's thought is not mainly expressed in his writings about water on the words, but in its philosophical thought itself has been included in the aesthetic consciousness of water potential logical connotation, is "in the whole of man's mind and the intuitive experience of natural intercourse in the realization of the source of the source, get the ultimate truth.

The natural environment determines the state of culture, the birthplace of Chinese civilization, the rivers and streams, the ocean is vast, people choose water to live in, the water naturally formed a kind of intimate relationship with the people, the philosophers on the understanding of the water so that the Chinese paintings have a deep philosophical foundation.