Study Traditional Philosophy Research Of Classical Gardening

Of traditional Chinese culture, Confucianism is just one of the representatives, and so is the Taoism. The integration of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism forms the specific Chinese aesthetic appreciation culture, which has a far-deep influence on classical gardening designing. Confucianism is the basis of building up a nation and giving it peace and security, with the ceremony system as its core value. It is also the origin of China’s moral concepts. Moreover, traditional farming mode, Confucian morality and different humanism environment decide the basic tone of the Confucian ecological aesthetic appreciation tradition. Therefore, the Confucian aesthetic appreciation is typical of natural aesthetic appreciation with neutrality as the standard. Confucianism’influence on China’s classical gardening is mainly represented in the balance of mountains, waters and plants, the perfectibility of the form, function and content, the neutrality of emotion and ceremony system, still another is the integration of natural views and humanism.Taoism and Confucianism complement each other, and they both have an effect on Chinese people’s habits of aesthetic appreciation. Taoism’s aesthetic concepts are the original theory of China’s aesthetic appreciation in the classical gardening design. The main influential Taoism opinions are that morality emanates from nature, doing nothing and the interchange of the virtual and the solid situation. Based on the above concepts, the Chinese classical gardening has its distinctive characteristics:the pursuit of beauty of artistic concepts, the beauty of harmony and the beauty of ecological balance. The detailed designing techniques are as follows:landscape design, static with live background, a broad view seen from an exquisite design, the intertwining of emotion and the landscape.With the development and improvement of the Buddhism, Chinese aesthetic appreciation culture matures, which integrates the Confucianism and Taoism, a distinctive mentality thought system. The Buddhism worships common feelings, intuition, insight and spiritual freedom. Furthermore, the Buddhists also reflect on themselves after the aesthetic appreciation of nature and spiritual relaxation in nature. The maturity of Buddhism propels the artistic concept into ethereal beauty. Chinese classical gardening under the influence of Buddhism is the integration of the Buddhism and the real "me", real interest of life, and human wisdom. The Buddhism makes gardening full of material culture and spiritual culture, which is a materialized psychology and aesthetic appreciation. Just because of the integration of Buddhism and gardening, the China gardening has the ecological beauty, beauty of simplicity, implicit beauty, ethereal beauty and beauty of wisdom. These above form the specific cultural implication of Chinese gardening.Feng shui view in China is the cherished experience in choosing dwellings. It is passed down by our ancestors. The Feng Shui view in China contains rich environmental psychology, bionic culture, respect for nature and life. It creates the legend of Chinese ideal living environment appreciation and gardening design techniques. Based on the above view, regional culture, bionics and ecology are stressed in the landscape designing. Feng shui view take advantage of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, so it became the main pirnciple of choosing a dwelling place and is popular with most Chinese people. TheConfucian aesthetic appreciation have moral concepts and human hierarchy as the corevalue, which become the main point of Feng Shui view, the balance of nature; Taoismprefers nature, doing nothing, the interchange of material and spiritual state. Such view iswidely used in the landscape design. However, it is the Buddhism that pushes the FengShui landscape view into a more sophisticated level. It creates an eternal spiritual spacewhere human spiirt becomes the topic and a comfotrable life is decided by汪generousheart.