A Study On The Application Of Fengshui Theory In The Chinese Traditional Gardens Of Ming And Qing Dynasties In Beijing

As a product of ancient Chinese philosophy, Fengshui theory is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient Chinese people, containing a wealth of knowledge. The ancient Chinese believed that the promotion of all the developments and changes is based on two gas interaction:Yin and Yang. Since the primitive society, our ancestors began to choose the environmental objective of good places to live, avoiding the cold wind, getting water easily, escaping the beast attack and so on, and gradually formed a system of Fengshui theory.The main method to integrate is combining theory with practice, which is based on collecting and summarizing previous research and study of existing data. Take traditional gardens of Beijing area in the Ming and Qing Dynasties as examples, to analyze the Fengshui theory’s impact on ancient Chinese garden design and to explore the application of Fengshui theory in landscape architecture.The creative point of this thesis is that from the research point of view, it is not only summarizing and describing previous studies, but proposing own opinion which is in result of clarifying the cultural context and deeply analyzing. From the actual cases point of view, this article boldly explored the ancient gardens which has never been analyzed, to expand the original cases.