Studies On Traditional Chrysanthemum Culture Of China

The cultivation history of chrysanthemum is very long in China. In the processes of cultivating, appreciating, evaluating, praising, and painting of the chrysanthemum, it has become involved in the content of life and the culture. So some kinds of cultural phenomena related to chrysanthemum have been formed and a culture system of chrysanthemum has been set up. The chrysanthemum culture has a very important position and value in the traditional culture of China. Therefore, comprehensive and systematical research of the traditional chrysanthemum culture of China would be verysignificant and meaningful.The chrysanthemum culture research adheres to the research of general concept ofculture, which could be divided into three levels , including the culture of tangible material, culture of behavior pattern and the culture of spirit. The culture of tangible form is the material basis for the chrysanthemum culture to be carried forward and developed. On the basis of tangible material and behavioral pattern, the spiritual culture can represent that the chrysanthemum culture has formed multi-symbolic meaning, showing the noble feeling, the moral qualities and the national sentiment. And the behavioral pattern was the intermediary bridge between the tangible and the spiritual culture. It was shown as the characteristic activities formed in the process of chrysanthemum cultivation, utility, and appreciation in the long history with thousands of years.The main research method of this thesis was firstly to collect the historic information as much as possible, and then to compare the result of the former research and pick the the useful material out and leave the other aside. Secondly, according to the main three aspects as the tangible, behavioral and spiritual culture, a large quantity of materials should be classified systematically. In the process of classification, the theoretical relationship among the three aspects would be thoroughly analyzed. The extensive theoretical system would be induced and refined. New viewpoint would be posed and a creative theory would be raised, meanwhile, the perspective obtained would be examined in the background of traditional culture of China to insure that the posed theory would be accurate.From the basis of tangible form of chrysanthemum culture, the first part of the thesis was to systematically study on the evolution of chrysanthemum cultivated varieties of China, the development of traditional cultivated forms of chrysanthemum and the feature of chrysanthemum figure design on the crafts. It has been explained that the feature and...