HISTORY OF GARDEN LANDSCAPING IN HENAN
A cura di: Tian Guohang, Guo Jianhui
Anno di pubblicazione: 2024
Gardens are beautifully crafted natural environments and recreational spaces created within designated areas using engineering and artistic methods. This involves modifying the terrain (or further constructing mountains, stacking rocks, managing water), planting trees, flowers, and grasses, building structures, and designing garden paths. Globally, gardens are primarily categorized into three major systems: Chinese, West Asian (including Egyptian, Babylonian, ancient Persian), and ancient Greek. The West Asian and ancient Greek gardens, influenced by various factors such as geopolitics, economics, and culture, have converged through mutual learning and permeation, shaping the entirety of European gardens, and eventually evolving into what we now refer to as Western gardens. The fundamental aesthetic views on the relationship between humans and nature differ significantly between East and West—“Tian Ren He Yi” in the East versus “Tian Ren Dui Li“ in the West—resulting in distinctly different garden styles. Chinese gardens seek natural beauty, placing mountains, forests, waters, rocks and Ting Tai Lou Ge as appropriate, emphasizing a preference for wild and natural charm. Western gardens, on the other hand, aim for artificial beauty, with paths, buildings, rivers, pools, and plants arranged in a structured manner, emphasizing order and regularity…
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