Chinese garden

Chinese gardens fully embody the concept of harmony between man and nature, embodying the idea that people conform to nature and strive for survival and development. In the gardening technique, it simulates nature and is higher than nature, that is, "although it is made by people, it is like heaven." It uses artificial or semi-manual natural landscape as the skeleton, plant material for the skin, and creates unlimited scenery in a limited space. The use of the separating, obstacles, frame, and view to divide and combine space to form a diverse and unified different scene.

After the Song Dynasty, on the basis of simulating nature, it strengthened people's spiritual thoughts and cultural pursuits, formed a freehand landscape garden, and used poetry and songs to proposition and point scenes as the guiding ideology for gardening. To reach the poetic and artistic situation has become the essence of Chinese traditional gardens.

The traditional Chinese landscape design is deeply influenced by traditional philosophy and painting. There are even theories that “painting is the mother of gardening”. The most reference is the Jiangnan private gardens of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Chinese courtyard has three tributaries: the Siheyuan with grey roof tiles in the north, the landscape of the south of the river, and the garden of Lingnan. Among them, the private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River are the mainstream. During this period, private gardens were directly influenced by literati paintings. They were more interested in poetry and painting, and artistic creations were more expensive than implicit ones. Their aesthetics tend to be fresh and elegant.