Taoism And The Artistic Spirit Of Chinese Gardening

Art and philosophy are active participants in the transformation of the legacies from traditional form to modern style. To explore the relationship between Taoism and traditional arts, can not only display the artistic spirit of Taoism, but also provide resources and reference for the development of modern art. Under the guidance of the interdisciplinary perspective towards philosophy and aesthetics, philosophy and art, this paper focuses on the factual connections of Taoism and Chinese gardening, aiming at systematically studying their commonality in terms of the artistic spirit through chronological historical analysis and horizontal dialectical synthesis. As Taoism (mainly the philosophy of Chuang-tzu) has inherent theoretical logic leading to the artistic spirit and natural landscape, Taoism has a profound impact on the art of Chinese landscape. In Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taoism has realized the self-consciousness of landscape aesthetics and facilitated the evolution of Chinese gardening in the form of metaphysics, thus setting up the fundamental characteristics of Chinese gardening during the next one thousand years. The mutual spirit shared by Taoism and Chinese gardening, mainly refers to the worship of Ziran(natural) and the pursuit of Yijing(artistic conception). The former refers to the relationship between the naturalistic and aesthetic ideal of Taoism and one of the artistic spirits of Chinese gardening, Ziran(natural); the latter is the identity of Weidaojixu, which is the view on space time, and the pursuit and creation of Yijing(artistic conception), together with the Taoist view of Xujing(open and peaceful mind) and the realization of Chinese gardening's Yijing(artistic conception).