The Shanshui Features Of Chinese Classical Literati Gardens

In spite of scientific and economic development, people still have a hereditary memory of their "home town", with traditional blood relations woven into the fabric of society. Contemporary economic prosperity does not in turn elicit the spiritual upgrade of people. Therefore, it has become vital to re-examine the culture of ancient China.Chinese Classical Garden is a large-scale, complex system of integrated arts, including almost all the Aesthetic elements, such as architecture, industrial arts, poetry, books, paintings and so on. With one complementing another, together they constitute an artistic kingdom of Chinese classical garden. As a representative of the mature period of Chinese classical gardens and a combination of habitability and enjoyability, Chinese literati garden, with the permeation of Shanshui painting, creates the aesthetic conception of landscapes as well as a special gardening conception of "images beyond images". As a matter of fact, Chinese classical gardens are, to some extent, Shanshui paintings in a three-dimensional space, which shows the unbreakable tie between Chinese classical gardens and Shanshui paintings. Despite the differences between the two in forms of space and methods of manifestations, they share the same principle, that is, they are both rooted in nature. The pursue of nature in the literati gardens does not lie in the pure imitation of natural landscape, but in the exploration of Taoism and Li.Freehand brushwork is the important Chinese art of aesthetic characteristics. Chinese traditional philosophy always put "esthetic images" in the first place when face the problem of the treatment of the relationship between "statement", "elephant" and "esthetic images". "Esthetic images" is the creator of the aesthetic experience with emotional and aesthetic arising from the aesthetic image, artistic conception, is the appeal scenery of nature. Since ancient times that have homologous Poetry, Poetry and Painting is always closely linked inseparable. However, transmission of information channels, "Painting" is to influence people by the visual sense of the concept of "poetic" Unlike painting as intuitive and therefore can not rely solely on this vision a way to transmit information. Chinese classical literati Gardens is precisely through to overall environment building, and synthesizes transfers all may affect the people to feel the view the factor to obtain the poem picture the ideal condition beautiful effect.In China, the most important gardening theories are put forward by painters. Many of them combine painting and gardening, paralleling theories of gardening to those of painting. The Shanshui features are widely used in Chinese classical literati Gardens.