A Comparative Study On Gardening Style Between Chinese Private Garden And English Natural Landscaped Garden

As the economical globalization, the countries in the world have more connection with each other. The communication on culture is enhanced, witch makes the intercomparsion of the art of Chinese garden and Western garden more convenient. But in the process of the development of the modern garden, many designers abuse the traditional style or blindly pursue the fashion of Western style, which makes many modern gardens in China lack of feature or its own style. Therefore, the research of the art theoretics of garden, especially on the comparison between Chinese garden and Western garden, becomes a very urgent affair.Chinese private garden in Yangtze-delta area are very famous for its unique characteristic on its proposition, composition, stone and water arrangement, buildings and plants. It represents the soul of Chinese traditional garden design.English landscape garden developed and flourished in the 1700s, it was totally different from the traditional European garden's inerratic style. It emphasized the consistent between man-made creatures and the nature. So it became a watershed in western garden history.The two styles of garden have their common ground: they both respect the nature; of course, there are more difference between them. We can not simply say which is better, because they have different background and spirit.This thesis tried to use the knowledge of comparative culturology and landscape morphology to compare art and technology between Chinese private garden in Yangtze-delta area of Ming & Qing dynasty and English natural landscaped garden in 18 century, in order to give some theory support to modern garden design.