Study On The History And Characteristics Of Jinan's Famous Parks(Gardens)

The history of world's garden indicated that:gardens, impacting on the people's life profoundly and persistently, mostly were rooted in their local situations, which had been leading to distinct regional-characteristic. However, that feature is experiencing unprecedented impulse in the current context of internationalization and modernization. Jinan, a historical and cultural city as core of QILU-culture, was impacted by the local environment and gradually formed its own garden features. Although there were famous gardens in different periods of history, but for various reasons, very few survivors of that could be kept to nowadays. Fortunately, after the founding of New China, the construction of several parks early in Jinan basically covered the surviving historic gardens that had been restored as the blueprint of modern parks. Nowadays several parks as the representative of Jinan city gardens have been inheriting the local characteristics of Jinan garden. However, the historical materials on Jinan City Gardens have not yet been systemized, so that leading to a lack of the basic information on gardens'construction and development. Especially in recent years, due to lack of correct understanding of history, tradition, the local characteristics, so that to result in hastily learning from the southward of Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, the northward of Beijing, Tianjin..., even from international metropolis, but the invaluable native-culture has entirely been neglected. The native features of Jinan city gardens were disappearing accompanying the crises of culture and ecology; and the public growing requirements of recreation. "History is the root, culture is the pulse." "How to inherit the cores of famous gardens in Jinan city according to'touching the pulse, keeping the root'", is the foundation of Jinan city famous gardens, but also the original aim of this research.Based on the above, the contents of this research are divided into three parts:the first part, based on the local environment, to summary the built environments (natural and social environments) and the rise and decline of Jinan city famous garden; the first time to systemize the process of Jinan famous gardens developing by the way of period. Meanwhile, to conduct field surveys of the eight current representatives Jinan famous gardens (six famous parks and nine historic gardens, including seven historic gardens in the famous parks) for establishing the research background. The second part, to discuss the features of Jinan famous gardens as a entire system by inheriting history characteristics (spatial pattern of the city's shan-shui landscape, historic sites), and social and cultural (including the social meaning and cultural characteristics on park-type city famous gardens), as well as garden art features (including spatial layout, piling stone hill and water system layout, garden building and landscape plants etc.). The third part, the conclusion, the author believe that Jinan famous gardens, as a information carrier, are reflecting the native characteristics of garden arts; in the current context, the renewal and development of it must be based on local environment and cultural continuation, so as to avoid losing their individuality that being impacted by the present trend of internationalization and modernization.