Such A Symbolic Meaning Is Deeply Embodied In The Essence Of Chinese Traditional Ideology And Culture

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In this paper, the symbolic design expression excavated in the traditional ideology and culture not only carries forward the excellent traditional culture of China, but also endows the new Chinese landscape design with cultural connotation, so as to improve the taste and significance of landscape art.In Taoist ideology and culture “The Greatest Virtue being Like water, Good for Everything” gave the essence of “water” a metaphor of “virtue” in the highest realm, hoping that human beings will be as lofty, charitable, tolerant and gentle as “water”, and the symbolic meaning of this traditional thoughts has been prevailed till now, affecting the thoughts and virtues of generations of Chinese people. However, in today’s society, accompanying with the fierce competition increasingly and the increased pressure day by day, there is less moment to enjoy the “water” like pure land in mind and body in gentle and tender, to be as hard as the rock. Therefore, inspired by the design on objectives, elements, principles and methods proposed for new Chinese landscape, based on the understanding of the traditional Taoist ...
... thoughts of “The Greatest Virtue being Like water, Good for Everything”,dutch bucket hydroponic this paper blends the design inspiration into the new Chinese landscape by using symbolic design expression to create a “pure land” endowed with the spirit and artistic conception of traditional culture.

“Nature”, it is not only the embodiment of Taoist thoughts or the objectives of future landscape design, but also the indispensable soul since the origin of all things, and the persistent principle of landscape art. At present, with the improvement of material conditions, a large number of people poured into the city. Facing the lack of natural environment, the “happiness” of contemporary urban people can only be satisfied in information technology, failed to be obtained from nature. Basing on the current situation, the new Chinese style landscape design should build a natural landscape environment within the limited urban space so as to bring the people, who enjoy in the comfortable and natural landscape with the enjoyment of the natural flavor of modern life and the sense of belonging and satisfaction from the living environment.The theory “The Greatest Virtue being Like water, Good for Everything” from Taoist ideology and culture, it regards “Virtue” as the expectation of human character and the treatment to all things in kindness and purity, which embodies the spiritual connotation of traditional ideology and culture, and matches its spiritual connotation with the characteristics of natural plants by using symbolic techniques in traditional Chinese landscape, as what is said in On Symbolic Design in the Art of Environmental Landscape “Environmental Landscape is one of the material carriers symbolized art” . Therefore, in view of the new Chinese landscape design, symbolic art is used to endow plants with the spiritual connotation of traditional culture, so that their symbolic meaning may create a landscape artistic conception, and enhance the appeal of landscape art , embodied in the landscape design as design elements, by which conveying excellent traditional culture and humanistic spirit .Taking plants as design elements of artistic conception construction to express the positive spiritual connotation, which enables people have the spiritual pursuit for “kept myself awake to watch the dizzy world”, being like the natural elements such as lotus and bamboo in plants. The lotus symbolizes the supreme virtue and pure spiritual connotation with the noble character of “grows up in the mud, but with no dirt on” , growing in mud but not polluted by it.The bamboo symbolizes the spiritual connotation of uprightness and modesty with the noble sentiment of “No matter where it is planted, it always adapts” . Bamboos are both with rigidity and softness as gentlemen, they are used to symbolize the pursuit of noble and upright personality wherever and whenever they are.

Applying the design elements with symbolic art into the “New Chinese Style” landscape design, it fully embodies the ideological connotation of Chinese traditional culture, creates the artistic life of “The Greatest Virtue being Like water, Good for Everything”, and inherits the basic principle of “reappear nature” and the spiritual connotation of “the union of heaven and human beings” in traditional Chinese landscape. Therefore, in view of the “New Chinese” landscape design, we should pay attention to the embodiment of the internal symbolic art with natural elements and the external aesthetic feeling, to present a landscape design with cultural connotation and natural beauty.Based on the understanding of the Taoist thoughts “The Greatest Virtue Being Like Water, Good for Everything”, this paper defines the word “Being like” with the meaning of tolerance. Laozi’s advocacy of “The Way from what is Beneath Abstraction” embodies the respect of traditional ideology and culture for “nature”,dutch buckets system with the expectation for the conformity of human beings with the original laws of all things, kept the basic principle of “accustom to nature”. Chinese traditional culture has a profound influence on Chinese art, which has acquired a real philosophical basis and provided a correct direction for Chinese landscape design. Therefore, in the “New Chinese” landscape design, the term “adaptation” is always applied in landscape design, whether it is the plant itself fitting the theory “act according to circumstances, survival of the fittest” or the landscape environment created by human beings, to face different regional, natural and climatic conditions, the corresponding natural plant configuration is carried out to explore the natural expression that adapts to the right time and places, implement the landscape in sustainable development.