Study On The Plant Culture Characters And Its Application In Plantscape Design

Plants can not only create a livable environment,but also be considered as a carrier of cultural transmission.The existing results have been more focused on one-fold study than synthetic.Plant cultural characters is the sum of language,text,customs,ideas and other social values related to plants in the process of natural and human civilization.With the features of extensiveness,diversity,convergence,expansibility.The generation process of plant cultural characters is ‘placing meaning on object and extracting image from object',which is the specific performance of the relations among ‘meaning-object-image'.Under the influence of the irrational and intuitive experience,the subjective emotion is entrusted to the object image through the inner understanding and empathy of subjects,the plant has become the images with artistic conceptions reflecting the transverse relations of ethics,politics,science and arts.Plant cultural characters are recognized by indirect acquisition and direct perception.The factors influencing the plant cultural characters are summarized from natural system and cultural system.Factors include plant biological characteristics,ecological habits and social psychological atmosphere.It is mainly divided into seasonal meaning category,folk customs category,legend allusions category,as well as figural virtue category,.The plan cultural characters is the medium that makes the designer and the viewer have a cultural empathy.It is used to construct and realize the plantscape artistic conceptions.The process of constructing the plantscape artistic conception is ‘shaping landscape by images and expressing emotion through plantscape',which is the specific performance of the relations among‘image-plantscape-emotion'.It is inseparable with the thinking mode of ‘extracting image' and the cultural system feature of ‘focusing on artistic conception' in the generation process of plant cultural characteristic.The application modes of the plant cultural characters in the plantscape design include wising use of seasons,following customs,referring to allusions,as well as analogizing and symbolizing.