Study On Imortal Culture And Chinese Classical Gardens

When we talk about Chinese culture, Daoism and Confucianism are usually thought as two main sides to constitute Chinese culture. But if we look backforward along history trace, maybe we can find another reason. Daoism and Confucianism beganned to appear in china in about Spring and Autumn period. But immortal ideas appeared long ago than Tree dynasty in fact. Immortal ideas, in its development process, absorbed other ideology like Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and so on. Finally, through this way, it developed a systematic and integrated ideology.Chinese immortal culture is rooted in folks deeply. It is in everywhere in society. It put its influence on every ways and showed out through folks religion and folks activities. On the other hand, through further infiltration to artistic creation, immortal culture provides an extraordinary imagination for Chinese literature and art. From the history of literature, prose poems, painting, music, architecture, sculpture, crafts, and so on the street can see its shadow, albeit not very clearly.Classical gardens as a traditional Chinese art, from its beginning, forged a bond with the Chinese immortal culture. the myth royal in the gardens has always occupied an indispensable position. In the Wei and Jin periods, with the rising of metaphysics, immortal culture have also taken root in the upper intellectuals and, since then, affected the Chinese intellectuals and human values more than 2000 years. Chinese literatural garden just started to sprout from the Wei and Jin periods, when intellectuals, in order to pursue their ideals, wrote prose, poem, painting, then gardening. So these scholars became the first Chinese garden activists in real sense. The immortal culture, accompanied by the gardening activities of scholars (intellectuals) and artisans (civil), was deeply into every corner of the gardens.