Research On The Development Of Chinese Urban Waterfront Landscape

The urban waterfront is not only the cradle of the urban civilization but also the cradle of the human civilization. Just because the special relation the city and the urban waterfront district coexist together, people have attached great importance to the protection and construction of the urban waterfront view since the ancient times. In Chinese ancientry, people have not especially emphasized on the concept of" the urban waterfront landscape ", the idea that people build scenery of water district of city bank comes from the geomantic omen theory and the Confucianists' simple ecological thought, advocate " harmony between man and nature ", " advocate naturally ". Urban constructions pay attention to combination with the natural environment, pursue the integration with natural scenery, create the wonderful and various informative the waterfront landscape.Perhaps the ancient city bank water view originated from the old mythology —Huang Ti's mountain of the Kunlun of temporary dwelling place of human world and celestial mountain of Peng Lai. Zhou Wenwang had begun to create the activity of the city bank water view according to the mythology, Qin Shihuang has had built near the Weishui the scenery of large bank -The palace of A Fang, started the urban waterfront landscape structure of " a pond three of mountains ". Emperor Han Wu Di set up in a wide range of and goes to the forest garden, begun the urban waterfront garden view construction of China' s city.Sui chaos had terminated the war, which had last 400 years, unify the whole country, set up China unprecedentedly strong feudal kingdom in history, made the economy of Central Plains resumed and developed, literature and art were developed rapidly too. Sui Tang kept company with the Western Regions frequently, promoted the multi-national culture artistic exchanging. Merge the foreign lands culture of Buddhism and the Western Regions, and the romantic sentiment since the Northern and Southern Dynasties intraditional art, formed the style Tang building art made up of the ration and romantic. Under such politics, economy, culture background, the urban waterfront landscape of China had got the fast development. Especially Tang facing capital ChangAn garden waterfront landscape construction had reached fast developing stage in China.The rise of the aesthetic conceptions of mountains and rivers of Song Dynasty, make the scholar, court official praise highly on the natural beauty of mountains and rivers, regard mountains and rivers as a pure beautiful object, and cherishes carefreely in this beautiful natural scene. The aesthetic consciousness of this kind of mountains and rivers is being developed and perfected constantly, had a large impression on the Chinese ancient society, the mountains and rivers then become a sum of enormous wealth in the classical art treasure-house of China. The tough high mountain of Kaifengin the capital, construction along the river of Suzhou, and West Lake of Hangzhou view had promoted the flourishing development of Chinese ancient urban waterfront landscape.Two generations of Ming and Qing dynasty, the Chinese society was in the steady situation for a long time, social economy was developed on a large scale rapidly. The urban construction had got the fast development. It was unrestrained since at the time of this point, distinguished and elegant life that the scholar pursued in Ming and Qing dynasty, had begun to pay attention to pursue. They had inherited the disciple of rational spirit of the former generation and romantic sentiment, adopted the Han and Tang dynasties' tradition, drew the natural interest and charmed culture characteristic, had built a large number of waterfront landscape. Beijing's garden waterfront landscape and the South urban waterfront landscape construction marked the urban waterfront landscape prosperity of development.After the Opium War (1840-1842), China had entered semi-colonial and semi-feudal society era, feudal society economy began to disintegrate gradually. The social situation was very confused, economy was developed slowly, which received the cruel exploitation ofimperialism powers and oppression again. The successive war had caused the decline of urban waterfront landscape development of China.Since the eighties of the 20th century, the human society began to march towards information age, the enormous change had taken place in the urban life, had established the technology, material and spiritual foundation for the rejuvenation of the water district in the waterfront. The development of water treatment technology had reduced the water pollution, the urban waterfront environment got obvious improvement; Increased in spare time of urban life and awaken of people's environmental awareness, the natural positions in the city of key element, such as water substance, afforesting, etc, improved day by day, especially success of the urban seaport of Baltimore of U.S.A. and strand of city of Europe, the urban waterfront landscape was transformed, the urban waterfront district became the focus that people pay close attention to again. West Lake of Hangzhou, Dalian coastal area, Wuhan East Lake and Outbeach, and river beach view in Shanghai of Israel were built for representatives' urban waterfront landscape construction blew the clarion that resumed Chinese modern city waterfront landscape.This text summarized the concept of the urban waterfront landscape, summarized the historical process of the urban waterfront landscape of China, announced the connection that the society, economy, culture factor and the urban waterfront landscape development; analyzed the inherent relation of the urban waterfront landscape and ecocity construction; explored the guidelines and principle of the modern urban waterfront landscape construction.