Hangzhou Historical Gardens–Parks Composition Features
Keywords:
Chinese traditional garden, Buddhism, plants, cultural heritage, landscapeAbstract
Historical gardens and parks are just one of the most important manifestations of the aesthetics, philosophy and lifestyle of subtle cultures in the Eastern cultures. In the Chinese concept, the function of a garden is simple – to improve the quality of life, to help balance the spiritual and material life, to experience harmony. On October 19, 2017 – November 4, 2017, the author of this paper, Petras Grecevičius, did his internship in China's Hangzhou and Shanghai cities. During the internship, studies on historic classic gardens and other landscape architectural objects were performed, the space structure, plant composition features, plant relationship with building architecture, objects of small architecture were analyzed. We were looking for links with Korean and Japanese historic gardens–parks, and also looked for the origins of the parks of angels. This article presents the study of visitor activity in historical gardens, trends in their current management, the features of plant compositions and the continuity of rich historical experience in contemporary urban space compositions. The main focus is on the planned structure and spatial analysis, gardens and parks in visual and functional relations with the urbanized areas and the lake area. This article provides summaries that may be useful not only for oriental garden designers in the Baltic region, but also for designing various landscape objects in Lithuanian farmsteads or urban spaces.
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