Study On Jiangnan Temple Gardens

As one of the main types of Chinese classical gardens, Chinese Temple Garden has the characteristic with richness in landscape, attractive conception, remarkable cultural history. Due to historical changes, other types of classical gardens (Royal garden and private garden) features are far from old, and their atmosphere are almost lost. While Chinese classical gardens in whole or in part retains solemn and quiet atmosphere of the original because of its religious function, and it also changes with the evolution, demonstrating its unique posture.The thesis explores the formation, the background and the geography of the Jiangnan Temple Gardens, and mainly carries research on its garden location, layout, spatial processing, creating artistic mood, the choice and configuration of landscape plants and so on. Also through Comparing the Jiangnan Temple Gardens Contents and techniques on Landscape with those in North and in Lingnan, the thesis finds their common and individual characteristics, and digs out the unique character of Jiangnan Temple Gardens. These are useful reference to modern landscape architecture design and construction. In the last, the article specifically analyzes the history, location, layout and landscape environments of the Lingyin Temple, the Tiantong Temple and the Xiyuan Temple. The main characteristic of Jiangnan Temple Gardens is summarized as follows:First:the Jiangnan in china has the advantage of natural conditions, beautiful scenery, and large quantity of rivers and lakes, and also have the reputation of Waterside. Natural environment of Jiangnan provides convenience to Jiangnan temple's location. The Jiangnan Temple Gardens can easily site near the beautiful natural Landscape. Especially the selection of natural water contents and skillfully using various types water to create a magnificent landscape can be regarded as the most successful and important features in Jiangnan Temple Gardens.Second:in the garden layout, in order to create a solemn and sacred religious atmosphere, the Jiangnan Temple is commonly constructed in axial symmetry mode. While fully structured of the topographical layout is limited in some places, the Jiangnan Temple Gardens groups is built accordingly to local Original conditions, adapted to the form on the situation. With the successful coordination between construction and the natural environment, and relationship between religious function and tours, the Jiangnan Temple Gardens creates a flexible and free, rich and colorful Buddhist temple garden landscape. In order to blend with the natural environment in some great changes in the terrain of Temple Gardens, axial symmetry and religious buildings stylized sequences mode are routinely given up, it adopts scattered layout mode.These all reflect a flexible concept and respect for the natural terrain in gardens layout construction.Thirdly, in the conception, Jiangnan has a profound region and rich culture history and also beautiful scenery, and these are creative inspiration of the Jiangnan Temple Gardens. Anthem literary poetry, the beautiful scenery, deep conception embraced are mixed in Jiangnan Temple Gardens, and it is a very example of "Landscape and conception are promoting Mutually".Fourth, the Jiangnan Temple Gardens plants are used to reflect the principle to comply ith the Buddhist doctrine, the ecological requirements, aesthetic requirements. The use of native plants in the Jiangnan Temple garden are succeed in expressing the meaning of Buddhist teachings, creating a religious mood, creating a pleasing landscape for visitors to the garden space.