Inspiration For Modern Home Interior Design From Chinese Traditional Feng Shui Culture

Constructions are a sort of culture. The traditional construction culture of our country, after several thousand year's ceaseless development, formed a unique system with magnificent connotation. The extremely remarkable of our traditional constructions, comparing with other construction cultures around the world, is that all kinds of building activity are almost deeply influenced by the traditional feng shui culture.The traditional feng shui culture is broad and profound. Its humanistic philosophy, the value orientation, the esthetic psychology and so on have the unique national character, and its impact on Chinese society is far too deep. Because of the lack of scientific quantitative and qualitative analysis, the traditional feng shui theory has been worn a mysterious veil, and its development was in trouble. But the ancient philosophers' exploration on Habitat living environment, with tenacious vitality, continues to today, and the existing historical and cultural buildings are most convincing evidences.Modern home interior design is an organic component and a continuation of the design of constructions. And it furthers, and recreates the design. The impacts of traditional feng shui culture are self-evident. It is our Chinese people's unique creation to plan and design through employing feng shui culture.The way to study the inspiration of traditional Chinese feng shui culture to modern home interior design is mainly to reproduce the ancient philosophers' thoughts of the living environment, to analysis the elements reflecting Chinese traditional philosophy and aesthetic ideas, which exerts universal and wide-ranging significance upon modern home interior design.The strike of foreign culture has brought new technology, but it has also brought crisis and challenges between people and nature. This contradiction is also reflected and prominent in the modern home interior design. Thus the search for scientific components in the traditional feng shui culture and aesthetic thought to guide the modern home interior design has become a necessity.When working at modern home interior design, we should consider the "Unity between man and nature" idea of philosophy as a general principle, employ other scientific ingredients in traditional feng shui culture and aesthetics ideas, and explore, accommodate and optimize the information of constructions, nature, and body in a symbiotic harmony state. In that way, we can create an ideal living environment effectively. And that is what this article wants to explore and try.