1. Landscape types that model mountains and water
The main elements of the space of Chinese classical gardens are native landscape types composed of topography, hydrogeology, native plants and other natural resources. The exquisite workmanship of local materials and the artistic conception of the garden landscape are one of the main features of traditional Chinese gardens. The main emphasis of Chinese classical gardens is to express people's understanding and feelings through nature, so there is a requirement of "originating from nature but higher than nature".
2． An ideal environment suitable for human habitation
Because of the relatively harsh living environment in ancient times, people paid great attention to the pursuit of the living environment in garden landscaping, focusing on creating more comfortable and pleasant microclimate conditions, such as landscapes The layout, planting of plants, construction of pavilions and corridors, etc., and external conditions such as light and shadow, air flow, temperature, etc. are created based on factors that affect human comfort.
3. The visual boundary of the borrowed space is Qiaoyin
Although many garden buildings are limited by the scope of the courtyard, the visual boundary of the space can be expanded through borrowed scenery, so that the garden landscape can be connected and connected with the natural landscape outside. Echo and create a holistic garden landscape. It allows people to have a panoramic view of the beautiful landscape in both dynamic and static conditions, and the visual effect of the space can be infinitely extended.
4． Step-by-step space organization
For the design of the garden, designers have broken through the inherent limitations of space and incorporated space organization techniques such as movement and stillness, combination of virtual and real, continuity from top to bottom, and step-by-step. The garden within a garden The traditional spatial layout principle often divides the entire garden into many spaces of different shapes, different scales and different personalities, and blends the elements that form the space together, staggering and covering each other. The natural, landscape, cultural and other landscapes are presented in In different interlaced spatial environments, the viewer's line of sight is extended and expanded.
5． See the big spatial effect in the small
Ancient garden designers refined and enriched the classic landscape features in nature, and reproduced the peaks, mountains, ravines, etc. in the nature in small courtyards, making the three-dimensional space The effect is shown in the garden. Usually "big" and "small" are relative. The key depends on how the designer creates unlimited space in a limited area.
6． The thought-provoking garden culture
The ancients often used landscapes to express their transcendent pursuits and personal thoughts. Therefore, in classical gardens, couplets, plaques, stone carvings, calligraphy, art, literature, philosophy, music and other forms often appear to express the artistic conception of the landscape, which invisibly adds to the connotation and cultural heritage of the garden itself.