The Historical Procedure And Aesthetical Interpretation Of The "West Lake" Culture

West lake is a view sign which is general exists in Chinese historical city. There areeighty records about west lake build in history. Besides famous Hangzhou,YingZhou,FuZhou,andHuiZhou,Chaozhou,Wenzhou,Fushun,Guilin,Shouchang,Xuzhou,Hanzhou,Wuyuan Huzhou and etc. are also included. Researching the reasons of WestLake’s general exists and its internal historycultural, and landscape aesthetic is a basicfunction in understanding Chinese traditional city’s views.According to arrange and make statistics about the ancient files such as localchronicles, historical records, ancient short stories, ancient poems, and ancient maps,using time’s vertical axis to deep compare and analyze West lake’s changing numbers,distribution specific, building reasons and aesthetic cognition. Concluding West lake’shistory in cultures, make a summary about west lake’s influence tothe social economicbackground and citizens’ needs in different historical times.ToMakinga furtherunderstanding about west lake’s traditional environment conceptions in its landscape’sbuildings. That means in the process of building, combining city’s productions and livesbasics facilities, mixing landscape aesthetic and the thoughts of FengShui, so that itbecomes the urban scenic spots for local governments”joys with citizens”.Italso meansthe environmental holism about “mountain-land-objects-humans”. At the same time, thethesis provides references in ancient west lake’s traditional environment to search adirection of present los“tWest Lake” culture and provide a reference to construction andprotection.There are four parts about studying west lake’s cultural developments:Part One, introduction.Based on the west lake’s extensive exists and practicalmeanings, puts the common laws and aesthetic characteristics of west lake’s history asthe importance of the thesis and make its structures and frames.Part two, take time vertical axis as a clue, analyzes articles of west lake in differenthistorical times, focus on the formation and evolution of west lake. Combining westlake’s numbers and geographic distribution in history, summarizing west lake’schanging numbers and distribution characteristics, taking a summary of the totaldevelopment from the beginning of Wei, high development of Tang, stability of Song,and great prosperity of Ming.Part three, based on the specific development of west lake, according to the two-way social changes and constructions reasonsof west lake, summed up west lake’smoving process and the background of social cultures. In the background of west lake’sconstructions, making an analysis from three aspects of city lives, water conservancyand FengShui, confirmed the city’s transformation, economic development and rich citylife which provide physical and mental guarantees. Water conservancy promotes westlake’s developent, FengShui, which is nongovernmental and the landscape aestheticchanges resulting in west lake’s scenery. In the analysis of building reasons of westlakes, through theclassification statistics, conclude the main factors and movingchangeslaws in west lake’s constructions, focused oncity defense before Tang Dynasty,focused on the water conservancy construction during Tang Dynasty, focused on city’stopographical advantages and social norms after Song Dynasty. The third part is mainlyanalyzing social background and constructions reasons to study west lake’s varioussocial functions in its city landscape, city protection, water conservancy, FengShui,release alive and citizens visiting and appreciation.Part four, is mainly explained and analysis in west lake’s culture formation andaesthetic images. Make a statistics characters about image on different articles,analyzing the different focus of west lake’s beauties in officials, literati and publics. Theresult is that the threes pay much focus on natures and humanistic concerns. The officialis much more pay attention to the social norms, joys with citizens, release alive andcelebrations. It puts west lake’s four aesthetic images,that is the beauty ofnatural,humanistic, kindness, and lives.Furtherunderstanding about west lake’s aestheticalvalues and cultural meanings.