The Influence Of Taoist Thought To The New Health&Longevity Cultural Garden

Nature is the purest and most beautiful art. Earth utilized nature, so does saint. And that which obey nature is Dao. The beauty of nature lies in uppermost reflecting Dao (inactivity means work), instead of its formation. Dao (way), existing before Tian (heaven) and Di (ground), is the foundation of all of live. Likewise, Dao itself is also an existing of art. Landscape art is a special art that synthesize time and space. The unique charming of Chinese landscape art and the profound influence by Taoist theory are inextricable. The reason why Chinese classic garden advocate and chase nature is the worship Dao and truth of nature.In this thesis through access to a large number of documents, on the basic of unscrambling classics like the Book of Changes, Tao The King, Zhuangzi, Huang Di s Canon of Internal Medicine and so on, it analyzed the origin, develop and connotation-of Dao, underlined that Dao, the root of every change, is universe rule that lasts and never dies and exists above and beyond substance of Taoism. At the same time, the combine interaction of philosophy and art is the important theoretical support of landscape creation. This article analyzed the Chinese landscape architecture and aesthetic artistic conception that influenced by Taoist theory and Chinese landscape architecture’s longevity preservation charming. Afterwards, on the basis of Health&Longevity cultural garden, proposed the new conception of New Health&Longevity cultural garden, and gave richer meanings to it.New Health&Longevity cultural garden have many characteristics like wide inclusivcness, non utilitarian and non mechanism. Aim at different users and the change of time and space, there is no large difference in its existing value. As the ultimate goal, be active to find and create beauty, sense to identical essence will different for aesthetic object. Though there is agreed theory foundation, there is no set pattern on landscape architecture’s scale, skill, form and sprit with emphasis on creative and aesthetic freedom. Aim at uniqueness of New Health&Longevity cultural garden, inquiring into the influence and guidance on construction by the Taoist theory and there is no doubt that the influence and guidance is existent and feasible. They impacts four sides as follows, choose a site for New Health&Longevity cultural garden, spatial awareness of New Health&Longevity, spatial distribution of New Health&Longevity, the principle of structure scene of New Health&Longevity.As to choosing site, we should research document literature to know about some interrelated theses such as Taoist theory, Health&Longevity culture, I-ching and Geomancy Study, etc. We also define the connotation of ideal circumstance in Taoist theory-the unity of Heaven and man-oriented, emphasize the importance of observing the environment to choose site, and purpose the principle of "act according to circumstances" and "lean on the mountain and by the river". Not only point out that "adroit use of environment for horticulture" is a important factor of impacting site’s choice of New Health&Longevity cultural garden, but also choosing site reasonably contributes to borrow scenery flexibly. So the inner need of New Health&Longevity cultural garden could be satisfied.As far as space-time consciousness is concerned, the outstanding beauty of landscape art needs the way of creation of "theme then writing". A requirement to make landscape alive, to conceive theme before making mounds making lakes, is to pre-establish aesthetic landmarks and a state of mind. To response wide inclusiveness of New Health&Longevity cultural garden with the Taoist "Harmony", it extracted abundant spiritual resource of Taoist theory and traditional Healthy&Longevity culture, integrated representative Healthy&Longevity theories, to mash some Taoist dialectical theories such as "learn from nature","the unity of Heaven and man","govern by non-interference", regarding the influence on landscape art as matrix, to point out four kinds of aesthetic psychology-"observe in peace","seclusion","simplicity","simple and pain". And the main factors of New Health&Longevity cultural garden include the artistic conception that aroused from them.As far as spatial distraction is concerned, setting the tone of landscape spatial construction is on the basis of integral grasp of landscape pattern. The difference of spatial form will change people’s psychological state. On the basis of aesthetic theory which is common in Taoist theory and Health&Longevity culture, it retrospected the origins of adore the beauty of nature and the beauty of harmony in Chinese landscape art through using the skills of landscape architecture art, such as "hidden scenery","relaxed and circumbendibus","the commutative translation of Xu (true) and Shi (false)", elaborated the distraction form of New Health&Longevity cultural garden should comprehensively consider the inner&out advantages and disadvantages under the influence of "learn from nature", then making a reasonable and artful to make mind into an aesthetic state, and maximized the function of health and longevity in landscape architecture.As far as the principle of constructing scenery is concerned, Taoist theories advocate "Xu-Shi generated in each other", purse "sceneries arouse connotation". In the way of construct scenery of Health&Longevity cultural garden, it combined the dialectical way of thinking in Taoist theory, highlighted that landscape space should be reasonably organized in order. Layout the architectures, water scenes, mountain stones and plants of the garden through comparison like "have-non-have","true-false","in-out","large-small","tall-short","rise-fall","distant-close","hide-present" to guide and indicate the space, then creating a multi-element space featuring various landscape, a fascinating landscape. Therein the discourse about "six dust environment" in Buddhism-"seen, listened smelled, tasted, touched, known"-explain the form of "connotation" of constructing scenery of New Health&Longevity cultural garden, and reflect circumbendibus and interestingness and particular charming of landscape health and longevity.