| In the history of China, plants had played an important role in people's life. In the beginning, people used them to maintain their life. As time went by, plants were used in gardens to create different landscape view. At last, a mature theory of planting design in traditional gardens came into being. In the course of development, Traditional Chinese Garden had formed different types, including Imperial Gardens, Private Gardens and Temple Gardens. Each of them had different characteristics, and also they had something in common. There were famous three mountains and five gardens in the prosperous time of Qing Dynasty, they were representative of Imperial Gardens. Yuan-Ming Yuan Imperial Garden, one of the most famous five gardens at that time, known as a palace "formed with thousands of gardens", is an excellent case for the research of planting design in Traditional Chinese Garden.Based on the study of historical literature, combined with field survey of Imperial Gardens, the history of Yuan-Ming Yuan were studied in order to know more about the garden. Plants used in Yuan-Ming Yuang were discussed, as well as the way of planting design in its prosperous time. To put the result into practice, suggestions of landscpae planting renovation were given to the Yuan-Ming Yuan Relic Park, and a blue print was made out to the reconstruction of the new Yuan-Ming Yuang Garden. The significance of the dissertation lies on the following four aspects:(1)A summarization of planting materials used in Yuan-Ming Yuan in the prosperous time: According to the Record of Yuan-Ming Yuan Inner Constraction, Drawing of Famous Forty View, and Poetry of Emperor Qianlong, plants used in Yuan-Ming Yuan in the prosperous time were summed up, assorted by arbor, fruit trees, shrub, liane, herbage, hydrophyte and crops, with a total of more than 120 species. Although just a samll part of all plants used in the garden, it's a valuable complement to the investigation system of Yuan-Ming Yuan Imperial Garden.(2)A conclusion of concepts and methods of planting design in Yuan-Ming Yuan: Based on the relationship between landscape planting and the society, nature and human culture, four concepts were concluded, i.e., 'plants compared with man of honor', 'views show agricultural life', 'landscape with poetry and painting sense', 'copy of gardens on the Yangtze Delta'. According to the recordation of literature, and compared with other imperial gardens that still existed, methods of planting design in the garden were studied. The way of integrating plants with other landscape elements, such as mountains, water, buildings and pathways were summarized. Further more, examples of natural and regular way of planting arrangement were analysed. (3)According to results of the research and status of Yuan-Ming Yuan Relic Park, a general suggestion was put forward to renovate planting landscape of the park. The renovation of mountains, water and sites of buildings followed the principles of constructing landscape with natural forest view, expressing beauty of inverted reflection in water, and reappearance of artistic concepts in prosperous time. Based on the integrity of landscape framework, planting design of the park should turned out to be a good expression of Traditional Chinese Garden, as well as a typical relic park.(4)Based on the assumption of reconstructing a new Yuan-Ming Yuan on a totally different site, Jiuzhou Beauty Spot was picked as an example for planting design. Taking the original concepts of Yuan-Ming Yuan, and the characteristic of plants in new site as account, a number of landscape plants with brilliant seasonal phenomena were chosen, which could also build up profuse flora community and reconstruct planting landscape according with the former park. |
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