There are three garden styles around the world, do you know which three?

The world's gardens can be broadly divided into three major systems: oriental gardens, European (Western) gardens and Islamic gardens, with the following specific characteristics.

I. Oriental gardens.

1, the pursuit of poetry and painting mood of the Chinese garden.

Ancient Chinese gardening activities were first seen 3,000 years ago, the Yin and Shang dynasties have been caught in the oracle bone, nursery, garden, garden and other garden words used to this day. Academics generally believe that the 囿 is the original form of Chinese gardens. Private gardens began to appear in the Han Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty garden development reached a new height, and the culture and art at the time alongside. The Song Dynasty saw the rise of literati gardens.

Ming and Qing Dynasties, the development of gardens reached maturity, especially the Jiangnan garden art tends to perfection, a large number of exemplary significance of the garden. Chinese gardens due to geographic and cultural differences, showing more obvious local characteristics, Jiangnan garden, Lingnan garden, garden in Shu and northern gardens have their own characteristics.

2, nature in the artificial Japanese gardens.

Japanese gardens are generally small in size, the water in the garden is getting smaller and smaller, and has always been honored by the Japanese people's stone is more often used in the garden, and even become the garden has a symbolic significance of the main scenery, that is, the so-called withered landscapes. Japanese gardens in the design of small courtyards is also unique, showing a very delicate, very formal atmosphere, reflecting the Japanese art of gardening the pursuit of perfect form.

Two, European gardens, pay attention to the rules and rigor.

Western gardening is not lack of poetry, but deliberately pursued the artificial beauty of the form. Not only the layout of symmetry, rules, rigorous, even flowers and plants are trimmed square, forcing nature to accept the law of proportionality is the basic tenet of Western gardening art. After World War I, a variety of modern schools of art iterative rise, the garden is also affected by the subtle influence of modern gardens with the development of modern architecture and gardening technology and popular around the world, is still booming.

Three, Islamic gardens? Highly artificial geometric.

Islamic gardens are usually small, closed buildings, a site will be divided into four squares, the use of stone, water and plants as the basic material, skillfully collocation, strict layout, created to make the people pleasing to the eye of heaven on earth.