| I think that ideas which China given to us, will be useful to those who want to reach high level in landscape gardening and designing. No one garden in China was not created without patience and sensation of harmony and you mast to like the Chinese philosophy.
The main idea – creation of the world of the nature in a miniature. Chineses speak:
« The handful of the earth and water spoon are attract greatest thoughts ». The nature – is big source of inspiration. The garden should be« interosculation quiet and changeable, as moon reflexion on water». Listen attentively. Be adjusted.
« Look around, look in youself »– here a major guide principle. In a garden, as in any flower composition, all should be harmonious – plan and colour, form and volume, and lines.
It give representation about it as about the world in a miniature. It understanding is the world containing human life, « the world in the world ». To raise a garden – all the same what to create a miniature: that and another ask calmnesses of soul. This creating should reflect love to the nature. There is a place of meditation, a relaxation, rest.
Gardens of China are amaze them variety. They – nature reflexion, but are created by hands of the person. Any of the Chinese gardens is not similar to another.
One of the basic directions of the Chinese landscape gardening – creation on small grounds of tiny gardens. There are different architectural constructions (arbours or pavilions), bridges, reservoirs, rocks and grottoes, necessarily adding for aesthetics rare species of trees and blossoming bushes.
The second direction – designing of landscapes in extensive territories, with the big reservoirs and large forms of a relief, more of them – man-made (rocks, mountains, falls). Necessarily put plants the big groups, crossing landings by paths, visually and territorially dividing space. Put apple-trees, cherries, plums, peaches or treelike and grassy peonies, tulips, roses, irises, lilacs more often.
The basic idea in creating a landscape gardening, «… that, when you walk in you plant, in each new point of the review was seemed new landscape ». It is important to create illusion of its "infinity" in a garden , but nothing should be too bright, not should be the empty, lost places. There is should be places which entice, create mood.
Projecting a garden, Chineses aspire to create the corner of the natural nature brought to perfection. In the Chinese style are necessarily smooth lines, reservoirs, the soft forms, freely growing plants. |
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