A Study On The Plant Artistic Conception Of The Book Of Songs

When writing a poem or designing a garden, the Chinese ancestors liked to use plants to express personal feelings and to create artistic conceptions. This art practice can date back to the Book of Songs, the first collection of poems and songs in China, in which approximately half of the poems used plants to create artistic conceptions. The wide variety of plants and nature environment in the Book of Songs appealing with all kinds of artistic conceptions provide a wealth of materials and inspiration for plant design.This article is trying to discuss the way of choosing and using plants to express emotions in the Book of Songs, explore the origin of the formation of plant artistic conception, as well as the changes occur over time, and collect artistic conceptions made by plants that can be used in modern landscape architecture, so as to inspire new ideas and new ways of handing down the tradition of plant artistic conception in Chinese Classical Garden.