| Taoism,as one of the mainstream thoughts of Chinese traditional culture,has had an indelible influence in history,artistic creation and modern design.From the perspective of the development of Chinese gardens,the charm of gardens lies in their ability to combine nature and man-made to achieve a balanced and harmonious state,which is the highest level of garden art.It is not only the fusion of subject emotion and object,but also contains a deep understanding of Taoism’s cultural thought,which still has important guiding significance to the construction of modern Chinese garden artistic conception.Under the background of global multi-cultural integration and economic development,Chinese modern garden landscape must break through the original garden pattern,absorb the essence of tradition,and reform and innovate on the basis of it if it wants to keep its vitality and form its own unique national art style in the world garden system.This article will focus on the construction of Chinese modern garden artistic conception,draw on the Taoism thought of Chinese traditional culture,explore its origin and history,try to explore the artistic expression and construction strategy of Chinese modern garden artistic conception.Firstly,four core thought categories of "Tao of nature","Tao of inaction","unity of nature and man" and "coexistence of existence and absence" are selected.By analyzing the philosophical roots of Taoism abiding by the law of "Tao",following the concept of the universe and following the law of nature,the paper summarizes the philosophical and aesthetic characteristics of Taoism culture in the artistic conception of Chinese gardens.Secondly,it traces back to the historical origin of Chinese classical gardens,and expounds the profound embodiment of Taoist thought in the artistic conception of Chinese gardens from three aspects,namely,the development course and characteristics,the structure of artistic conception and the construction method of artistic conception.Then,through the analysis of the similarities and differences between modern gardens and classical gardens,the current limitations of classical gardens are summed up.At the same time,the development trend of Chinese modern gardens and the absence of various elements are also revealed.Based on the above problems,from the perspective of Taoist culture,this paper analyzes the development status of Taoist thought in Chinese modern gardens,and concludes that it is necessary to re-examine and face up to the guiding significance of Taoist thought to Chinese modern gardens.Finally,combining the garden concept and aesthetic pursuit in the construction of the artistic conception of Chinese classical gardens,as well as the modern value of Taoist thoughts in the construction of the artistic conception of Chinese modern gardens,the author obtains the construction method of the artistic conception of Chinese modern gardens based on Taoist culture.Through the landscape analysis of the excellent examples of Chinese modern gardens and the distillation of the essence of Taoist culture and aesthetics in the examples,this paper summarizes the specific construction strategies of the artistic conception of Chinese modern gardens from the perspective of Taoist culture from the aspects of construction elements,theme,space and layout.It provides some theory,case reference and support for the artistic conception construction of modern Chinese gardens in the future. |