What are the characteristics of classical gardens in China?

The basic features of classical gardens in China are as follows:

1. Landscape types of Moshan flooding

The main elements of classical garden space in China are local landscape types composed of natural resources such as topography, hydrogeology and local plants. 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. Classical gardens in China mainly emphasize the expression of people's knowledge and feelings through nature, so there is a requirement of "from nature, higher than nature".

2. An ideal environment suitable for human habitation

Due to the relatively harsh living environment in ancient times, people pay great attention to the pursuit of human settlements in landscape design, and pay attention to creating more comfortable and pleasant microclimate conditions, such as the layout of mountains and rivers, the planting of plants, the construction of pavilions and pavilions, etc. And according to the influencing factors of human comfort, create external conditions such as light and shadow, airflow and temperature.

3. Make good use of the vision of lending.

Although many garden buildings will be limited by the scope of the courtyard, the visual boundary of the space can be expanded by borrowing scenery, so that the garden landscape can be linked and echoed with the external natural landscape, and a holistic garden landscape can be created. So that people can have a panoramic view of the beautiful landscape in both dynamic and static conditions, and the visual effect of the space is infinitely extended.

Step by step spatial organization

For the design of gardens, designers have broken through the inherent limitations of space, and integrated the spatial organization techniques such as the combination of static and dynamic, the combination of reality and reality, the connection from top to bottom, and the step-by-step approach. The principle of garden-style space layout in gardens often divides the whole garden into many spaces with different shapes, different scales and different personalities, and mixes the elements that make up the space together, interlacing and shielding each other, presenting natural, landscape, human and other landscapes in different interlaced space environments.

5. Look at the big space effect from a small place.

Ancient landscape designers refined and enriched the classic landscape features in nature, reproduced the peaks and valleys in nature in small courtyards, and presented three-dimensional spatial effects in gardens. Usually "big" and "small" are relative, and the key depends on how designers create infinite space in a limited area.

6. Charming garden culture

The ancients often expressed their transcendental pursuit and personal thoughts by sending their feelings to the mountains and rivers. Therefore, couplets, stone carvings, calligraphy, art, literature, philosophy, music and other forms often appear in classical gardens, expressing the artistic conception of gardens, which invisibly increases the connotation and cultural heritage of gardens themselves.