The Modern Meaning Of Chinese Traditional Gardens

Traditional Chinese garden can be described as unique in the history of garden art, with the Western garden, the Islamic garden called the world's three major garden systems. However, the social development and environmental change make a huge gap of time and space between Traditional Chinese garden and the demands of the environment of modern life. Meanwhile, the absence of the traditional cultural inheritance and strong influences of the west culture, make the work lack of "modern" and "original",though the Chinese modern landscape architecture are developing rapidly. Academic research of Chinese traditional garden showing diverse trend, some people think that it is unable to integrate into the today's society, while others from the perspective of national culture, emphasizing inherited traditional garden, but they tend to follow its manifestations. So, this article established the correct attitude of traditional garden firstly:the re-creation based on the tradition.The author believes that the interpretation of inheritance and development on traditional Chinese garden exist three misunderstanding behind the upsurge in construction and research. The first one is emphasis on terpretation of the traditional garden elements and techniques rather than the theory; the second one is lack of the essence of the modern landscape, resulting in copying the external forms of the West garden; the third one is the limitations of research methods and perspectives on the tradition, that means lack of exploration about the modern meaning of gardening ideas. This dissertation figures that the root is misunderstanding in the essential characteristics and the source of formation of the landscape art on specific historical context and regional culture, and lack of the scientific thinking mode to the research.Therefore, this paper starting from the thinking mode which affect people understand themselves and the objective world, analyses the differences between Chinese and Western thinking mode, accordingly, dissects the cause of fundamental difference between the two kinds of arts and culture system, and theoretical system of academic.On this basis,this article analyses the essence of Chinese traditional garden and morden landscape architect ure,meanwhile changes the traditional Chinese thinking mode,draws on the strength of the western thinking mode,and uses the scientific analysis and creative thinking mode,thereby explores the modern meaning of Chinese traditional gardenThen, this dissertation analyses the course of development of traditional Chinese garden and its influences in the East and West, and the reasons of the decline in modern time. The dissertation also analyses the essence of modern landscape architecture, that is the plastic arts of space and arrangement and remediation of territorial based on culture and natural elements, then analyses its characteristics and development trend.Based on the above understanding, the research of this dissertation starts from the modern landscape, and then returns to the traditional garden. That means we must use the modern landscape design requirements to re-examine the traditional garden, in order to separates from its value and limitations. Specifically, the modern landscape design is divided into six areas:site analysis, design ideal, design prototype, design elements, space layout and the art mood. Firstly, this paper analyses the method of traditional Chinese gardens on every step. Secondly, learn from the Western garden successful transformation from the traditional to the modern and combine the modern landscape characteristics, try to establish an evaluation standard; finally, explore how to inherit and develop the traditional Chinese garden.Finally, in this paper, Zhuzhou Tianchi park landscape planning and the design of the 7th China International Garden&Flower EXPO-Wei Fang Garden as two examples, the author discussed that how to inherit and develop the traditional Chinese garden.