Merchants Compound With Huishang Garden Aesthetic Cultural Interpretation

Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants existed for several hundred years in china's business circles. Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants inherited and absorbed rich commercial experience excellent traditional moral thought. So how should we study the business culture of Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants? Previously people often carries out economic, historical and ethical research on Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants, or talk about the architecture, aesthetics, geomantic of the Courtyard of the Shanxi merchants and the Garden of the Huizhou merchants alone.This thesis has provided a new perspective: the Courtyard of the Shanxi merchants and the Garden of the Huizhou are treated as an animated whole. This thesis combines the research of architecture with the research of business culture in order to find out the inner link between them.Architecture is the space of social life; under the different character is the cultural heritage and life, including profound philosophical implication. Royal Garden always imitates the model of vast cosmos in order to express the"monarchical inborn"idea; while Suzhou gardens, representatives of private garden in architecture, imitate the natural topography. These elegant gardens are decorated with plain color and appropriate spatial scales. Trees and flowers, gardening and landscape all demonstrate the poetic implication.The Courtyard of the Shanxi merchants and the Garden of the Huizhou merchants have unique aesthetic values, mainly containing the code of etiquette structure combination, three tortuous vulture art and the couplet written on scrolls and hung on the pillars of a hall. These elements from the Huizhou merchants and Shanxi courtyard garden contain broad humanistic concepts of huge spiritual feelings, aesthetic values and ideals. We can say that the Courtyard of Shanxi merchants and the Garden of the Huizhou merchants are unique aesthetic cultures and the areas of emotional expression. Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants take the honesty and credit as a moral core commercially and used it as the criteria to standardize their business activities. Exert Confucianism advocates benevolence and justice, sincerity, trust and moral precept on business practice. Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants all earned the community's trust and support. Many of them made donations to the society after rich in business.Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants have already withdrawn the stage of history. We can draw lessons from their success; we should inherit excellent factors of the Chinese traditional business culture in order to promote the development of modern corporate culture.