The Landscape Culture Meaning Of Chinese Film And Television Works

The Chinese traditional culture is eventful and complex. In the world of art, ancient literary men particularly like mountain and water. They own the unique views of nature, life philosophy and aesthetic interest under the main influence of Confucianism. The influence includes Taoism and Chan Buddhism too. They are on intimate terms with nature and drive themselves hard, governing their passion including. When there is no way to joining society, they turn to art creating because of their withdrawn and introspective character. They choose to live in seclusion and focus on landscapes instead of gaving vent to the pain of frustration towards society or other people. They use the landscape paintings, poems and garden arts creating mind holy land, conveying rich connotition by the extremely simple form. It includes broad-minded view of the universe, calm values and the pursuit of gentlemen's noble character.The traditional landscape art reaches a very high level of standard in both form and intrinsic. But this fascinating national culture has not been accepted or understanded because of class interval. People who creating and accepting landscape paintings, poems and garden arts are upper class people form common class in Chinese feudal society, so art stands proudly among the community as a elite face for a very long time. The common people have no chance to contact with the elegant works of art and the rich contains of human spirit. This is really very unfortunate and regrettable. The narcissistic personality of upper class and the ignorance of lower class exists both.The birth of film and television provides a new opportunity to the heratige of landscape culture. This kind of art who bases on the combination of audio-visual montage language has distinct popular culture characteristics.It is much easier to accept and understand than the other kinds of arts. Landscape image itself has a striking feature of visibility, so it is very suitable to use film lauguage to express. Some excellent film and television artists are sensitive to this opportunity. They pursue the national aesthetic value of light dream with no utility. They take landscape as performance object, creating beautiful mood by it and compare noble character with it. They rely on landscape to express their sublime pursuit and look forward taking with the audience by the embodiment works in order to complete the construction of meaning world. This is the culture meaning of landscape in film and television works. This paper will focus on the theme and discuss in these aspects below:Firstly, explaining the causes of unique Chinese landscape culture from both geographical and human perspective. At the same time, it will sort out the torch passing of landscape art and spirit in history. The objective existence of magnificent rivers and mountains on land of China gave birth to the material basis of landscape cultural. Traditional thinking is the main ideological basis of landscape culture, including the Confucianism and the Taoism. Confucianism stresses on restraint and tolerance, so the artistic tendencies of focusing on landscape appears. Taoism stresses on the harmony between man and nature, so the love of mountain and water which is fun but not obscene appears.Secondly, discussion the aesthetic performance of landscape culture in film and television arts. This part will discuss the effect of landscape culture to feature films, documentaries, TV series and other major forms of visual arts respectively, mainly from the creative concept, the choice of theme, narrative structure, characterization, ideographic approach and work style. It describes how film and television arts which are popular reflect the elegant culture.Thirdly, complete art activities include the entire process of interaction between author, recipient and text. The creation and appreciation of film and television work is the same. This paragraph will discuss the gaps and indeterminacy of landscape culture in film and television arts and explain how it makes audience participate in the second creation as a charming calling structure. The perfect taste is generated under the Joint forces. This is the aesthetic means which landscape shows.Fourthly, discussing the problems caused by the prosperity of popular culture, such as vulgarization and the ecological imbalance of media. It is encouraged to convey elegant meanings of landscape culture by easy forms which audience loved, in order to inherit the fine national spirit and build the harmonious environment of the media.