What is the connotation of "Chinese classical garden culture"?

The traditional Chinese garden art has a long history and elegant taste. As an art, it carries a rich Chinese traditional spiritual culture. In the material carrier, the environmental atmosphere gives people a sense of mood, modeling style gives people an image of perception, symbols and meanings give people associative understanding. This paper focuses on the spiritual and cultural connotations of plants in classical Chinese gardens.

I. Emotional hidden body.

In the traditional Chinese garden culture, flowers and trees are people give rich cultural information carrier, as well as the object often used to the medium. For example, pine, bamboo, plum, called "three friends".

Said in the frost and cold in the formation of loyal friendship, also used to indicate that withstand the test of harsh environments, with a chaste and chaste personality: pine, strong and elegant, defying the harsh environment of frost, snow, wind and cold, in the cold on top of the mountains, with a chaste and unyielding, high wind and bright character. Confucius has "years of cold, and then know the pine and cypress after withering also" the famous motto: Li Bai sang its praises: "Pine and cypress is straight, difficult for the peach and plum face": bamboo is the "three teachings" **** appreciation of things, the accumulation of deep cultural meaning. With a deep cultural flavor. "Before the scholar first have section, even if the clouds are also vain", so bamboo is regarded as the most temperament of the gentleman. No wonder Su Dongpo "would rather eat meat, not live without bamboo". Garden attractions such as "bamboo paths through the secluded" is most commonly used.

Pine and bamboo around the house is the ancient literati favorite place: plum is the majority of the Chinese people's favorite plants. Plum has a straight, pure, clean, elegant and so on character. Lu You's words, "no intention to fight for spring, a group of jealousy," appreciating the quality of the plum blossom and the spirit of dedication to the fear of violence.

The character of a gentleman who does not fear the harsh environment of frost and wind. Lotus is regarded as "out of the mud without staining, Maundy lotus without demon": osmanthus is more elegant in Li Qingzhao's mind. "Dusky light yellow body soft, love sparse traces of distant only incense to stay, why shallow blue, painting columns open in the crown of the fall, the slut can be killed without emotion, what is the case that year do not see the collection". Even the elegant plum blossom is also jealous. Hidden chrysanthemums are also shy for him. I can see the nobility of the osmanthus.

II. Cultural symbols and symbols of good luck.

Pine and cypress as a symbol of longevity and prosperity: plum blossoms five petals, known as "plum blossom five blessings", become one of the garden paving the ground of the auspicious patterns. "Plum" and "eyebrow" resonance, and magpie combination of "magpie plum" pattern, meaning "happy eyebrow"! Bamboo is widely used in floor cover carving patterns to create a joyful and peaceful atmosphere: bamboo is regarded as a symbol of spring, Yangzhou "Garden of Bamboo", to celebrate bamboo as the theme. "A" for a piece of bamboo leaves of the shape, "a" garden alone to take a bamboo, but also contains the independence of not reclining, the deep meaning of the fragrance of self-appreciation. Bamboo also symbolizes the meaning of the prosperity of children and grandchildren. Bamboo is also a symbol of Buddhist teachings: lotus for the Buddhist symbols, for the Buddha's land sacred clean things, become a symbol of wisdom and purity: wutong in the "Poetry" in connection with the phoenix.

Three. Witness to history Ancient trees.

Ancient trees refer to the growth of more than a hundred years of old trees: the famous tree refers to the social impact, the world-famous tree, the age of the tree is also often more than a hundred years. Ancient trees have irreplaceable historical heritage value, the ancient tree "ancient" as a cultural character, it is the accumulation of history and culture, is a living cultural relics in the garden. This ancient cultural character, often seen as a symbol of the nation, rivers and mountains. Growth of more than one hundred years of ancient trees have entered a slow growth stage, the trunk diameter of the very slow thickening, morphology to give a person weathered, strong and ancient feeling.