An Investigation Of The Artistic Features Of China's Classical Gardens And Their Tourism Development

Dating back far and wide, China has a long tradition of landscape gardening, during which a unique artistic style gradually came into being. The art of China's classical landscape gardening drew nutrients extensively from various sources like philosophy, literature, painting, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and gardening, and has developed into a compound art that contains rich Chinese traditional culture and possesses enormous artistic, aesthetic, historical, cultural and tourism values. Therefore, a comprehensive summing-up and examination of the artistic features of China's classical gardens are essential to investigating thoroughly its cultural core and potential values, to inheriting and maintaining ancient Chinese civilization and traditional culture, and to bringing to full play its economical and social benefits in the current construction course of material and spiritual civilizations. From this point of view, this thesis briefly reviews the history of China's classical landscape gardening after a descriptive explanation of China's classical gardens and other relevant concepts, and generalizes from different aspects 8 artistic features of China's classical gardens. The thesis especially puts forward the idea of proper tourism development of the classical gardens and makes some suggestions in accordance, so as to offer some feasible references for an overall exploration of the comprehensive value of the classical gardens and the development of their landscapes.