Study On The Gardening Art Of Traditional Landscape Road In Zhejiang

Landscape Road has been being closely linked with human life since ancient times. With thedevelopment of history, Chinese landscape road meets the aesthetic demand as well as bears the basictraffic function. Gradually, people have grown extremely fond of landscape road through relaxingmind and body, seeing views, recording life, expressing emotions, and stating philosophy on it. Animportance of gardening the landscape road has been attached on day by day, and experience has beengathered as well. Therefore, traditional landscape road contains an outstanding value of traditionalgardening art when bears the historical cultures of thousands of years’ Chinese nation. It is part of theprofound gardening art of Chinese traditional garden and also a precious heritage. Furthermore, thetraditional gardening art of landscape road in Zhejiang is one that of regional characteristics.In the background of landscape industry being affected by the western model, it is helpful for us toinherit and develop gardening art of traditional landscape road with regional characteristics whenlearning new theory and technology that we investigate and study the traditional landscape road inZhejiang systematically, which is also significant for the modern landscape road construction to showprofound accumulation, underline local culture, and considering innovation.A systematic analysis and study about the historical culture background, formation mechanismand gardening skills of landscape road in Zhejiang is carried out on the basis of analyzing andconcluding documentation and investigating on the spot of existing traditional landscape road inZhejiang. The main results are as follows:(1) In the way of document survey, the historical changes, the images in ancient poetry anddrawings, the interaction with the western traditional landscape road of the traditional landscape roadin our country is analyzed. The aesthetic interest of beauty in form, beauty in function and beauty inculture is concluded.(2) In the way of both field investigation and document survey, from the two aspects, one is theformation mechanism of landscape road in Zhejiang, the other is the gardening skills of integratingroad with buildings and structures, mountains and water, plants, and also according to theparticularities of every link, the gardening art of traditional landscape road in Zhejiang is carefullyexplored in different views using the typology approach. In addition, classic examples areenumerated.(3) The results of research of traditional landscape road in Zhejiang is analyzed, and the regionalcharacteristics of landscape road gardening art that adopting measures suiting local conditions, localculture, obtaining raw material locally and site features is also concluded. A practical case is given toexplore how to inherit and develop gardening art of traditional landscape road. A suggestion is madeto protect the heritage and to keep inheriting those gardening art that deep accumulated and rich inregional characteristics of traditional landscape road. Meanwhile, it is necessary to innovate bycombining the new situation and learning from good experience and achievements together, and todevelop a new way build the landscape road. In addition, the methods of how to inherit and develop inpractice are discussed after introducing excellent real cases and preliminary practices that the author has done.