| Since 16th century the route of Europe to the east had been opened up, as well as the Rococo art risen in the West, Chinese porcelain, furniture, silk and large number of works of art imported Europe, so as to Europe had started a "China wind.". Chinese-style palaces,pagodas and gardens, and other traditional architectural styles disseminated into the European through the missionaries and to be the range in the 17th and 18th'century, with been repeated copied and ameliorated in the past few centuries which had become a unique landscape. whatever the king or the ordinary civilians, were trying to copy the construction of Chinese-style gardens and palaces. Some well-known architects had also visited China's classical building and studying China's architectural art. Even now, the "China wind" in the western countries are also been embodied.Architecture, as a common type of art, have a common premise of in the east and West society, it has a practical value, first it is the people's shelter no matter in the summer of burning sun or in the cold winter; At the same time it has a strong social and cultural values. However, the Chinese architecture and Western architecture, both in form, or in connotation, there is a great difference exists. The unique shape and structure of the Chinese Construction give the Westerners a space of imagination, it also embodies the Chinese people's attitude to life, closing to the natural, being indifferent to religion, caring the family and so on, all that make the westerners do not pondering thoroughly doubts, and its charm of the consummate amalgamation of the art and the construction, have got too much surprise and admiration too. The unique aesthetic Chinese-style construction has been gradually accepted by the world and which exhibit the process of the amalgamating of the world culture at the same time. |
