TITLE:
Inspiration of Taoist Thought and Culture on the “New Chinese Style” Landscape Design
AUTHORS:
Chaoyi You, Xianmin Mai
KEYWORDS:
Taoist Thoughts, Traditional Landscape, New Chinese Style Landscape, The Union of Heaven and Human Beings, Water Benefits Everything in the World But Never Contends Its Own Contribution, The Greatest Virtue Being Like Water-Good for Everything
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.7 No.2,
May
16,
2019
ABSTRACT: It was the thousands of years of
China history that gave birth to the excellent traditional ideology and culture, and in the
long history the Chinese Taoism came into being and gave continuously influence
and heritage. The philosophical thoughts of “let nature take its course” run
through and influence all periods and fields, including the profound impact of Chinese
traditional landscape closely related to nature, and the ideological pursuit of
Taoist traditional culture reflected in Chinese traditional landscape. The
Taoist ideological and cultural language endows the garden art with unique
spiritual connotation, and the garden art endows the symbolic meaning of the
essence of Taoist ideology and culture to everything, they interact with each other and develop in harmony. Therefore, this paper proposes to
express spiritual culture with natural pattern in the new Chinese landscape
design, explores the symbolic design expression of traditional landscape under
the influence of Taoist ideology and culture, and applies it to the new Chinese
landscape design to find the design ideas with spiritual connotation while inheriting
the traditional ideology and culture.