Chinese Feng Shui And Environmental Art

Chinese geomancy Fengshui was the fundamental basis, norm and guiding ideology for site selection of environment, planning, design and building of a residence. Its effect scope showed a homology and similarity with the building goal and environment design. The purpose of studying geomancy Fengshui from the perspective of "art" was to explore the artistic value of selection of residences through the study of geomancy Fengshui's effect on ancient ancestors'way of living so as to define the development orientation of modern environment design, reflecting the consistence, reality and sustainability in construct of environmental art. In this way, the paper attempts to establish an environment designparadigm with Chinese characteristics, which can guide the design of environmental art.The paper consists of an introduction, three main sections and a conclusion. The first part of the body section deals with origin of geomancy Fengshui. Environment design is based on the cognition of the noumenon of environment, which is consistent in ancient times, today or even the future. The noumenon is composed of natural background, social background and the background of cultural awareness, which complement each other. They are not only a platform for environment art but also the contents reflected by environment design.The second part is geomancy Fengshui and construction of environment art. Chinese geomancy Fengshui is not confined to ancient times. However, it is the environmental design in the ancient times that could exactly reflect its mechanism of action through study of its origin and changes, law of development and core design ideas. The symbiosis of design idea of geomancy Fengshuis, namely, the symbiosis of environment and human, villages and nature, building communities and urban space, buildings and courtyard and decorated patterns and the bottom symbolizes the symbiotic system of yin and yang and reality and imagination. The urban construction system, construction system of building environment and decorative systems are all based on it.The third concerns the construct of environment design. It conducts the construct of environmental in accordance with the cognitive model and core design ideas of Chinese geomancy Fengshui. It proposes the approach of construct of environment design, clarifies its concept and connotation, interprets its design basis and analyzes its design ideas so as to establish the paradigm the modern environment designt and aesthetic development orientation with Chinese characteristics.In conclusion, the paper makes clear its final viewpoint. It summarizes the inexorable law geomancy Fengshui changing into environment art and brings forward the mechanism of action, aesthetic characteristics and development goals of environment design.