The Landscape Art Design Idea And Design Implications About "Superfluous Things"

Since 21th century, the development of Chinese society has made a spurt of progress, especially the material civilization. But in the same time of the rapid development of Chinese material civilization, the development of spiritual civilization shows obvious lag and the imbalance state is reflected in many aspects, the regional construction in China as well. Chinese city construction and design is suffering from the erosion of "standardization", "the same pattern", "no difference", "skin". The behavior of emphasizing on "hard environment" ignoring the "soft environment" hinders seriously the traditional national culture and regional culture development in the new era, and also affects the transformation of Chinese economy and social structure. Therefore, research Chinese excellent traditional culture and find the design ideas and concepts of city garden from the literature in ancient books is very necessary to examine and enlighten the modern landscape design."Superfluous things" by Mr. Wen Zhenheng from the perspective of literati in late Ming Dynasty states the China gardening thought, environment ideas, implements furnishings ideas, planting, animal breeding, calligraphy and painting entertainment, aesthetic ideas and so forth from the outside to the inside, and finally presents the green ecological view of "big garden", "big home".This thesis to be based on the view of "big garden", "big home" combines the contents in "superfluous things" including rooms, flowers and trees, water and stones, fishes and birds, calligraphy and paintings, appliances, clothing, boats and cars, position, vegetables and fruits etc. together into understanding and analysis of its landscape design ideas, extracts the good landscape design ideas from different levels, and compares and analyses with contemporary design examples. Therefore, the contents of the research is mainly two aspects. The first is that it analyses detailedly about the big garden design ideas of it. The second is that it analyses the inspiration of these ideas to contemporary design. In the analysis, the two aspects is together not isolated.This article mainly analyses the design idea and design inspiration of "superfluous things", in order to extracting the essencial content of landscape design, set off to make it to the contemporary social background through this method of "top-down"; looking at contemporary landscape design, discovering problems and deficiencies by the analogy to the similarity of late Ming dynasty and the contemporary social background, then letting the landscape design ideas, position, belief, attitude, style and aesthetic, methods and techniques of "superfluous things" to correspond to these problems and deficiencies, finding the design inspiration point, finally to boost my contributing to the ecological development of the contemporary landscape design.On the research methods, this paper is given priority to landscape architecture science research methods, with the design, art, aesthetic, and logic method, the historical materialist dialectics, comparative law, case law and other modern multidisciplinary research methods, looking at garden art and design idea of superfluous things" comprehensively, extracting the specific content of the design idea and its era significance and revelation hierarchically.Finally this paper draws the following conclusion:First, this paper finds a lot of similarities between the late Ming dynasty society and contemporary society, and claims to put the Green design and humanistic design concept given by Wen Zhenheng forward to the modern landscape design.Second, this article refines design the specific meaning of landscape design of "superfluous things" classifiedly, including the design ideas of that green natural is true, literati is true, Da Tong is beauty, health is good, suitable for using is true, artistic charm is the core; arguing that the design of the literati, and against the arrogant excessive position and advocating the design faith of buddhist meditation, puting forward the design attitude of that it is from inside to outside; gardening is building home; agriculture and culture are one; advocating the elegant noble, plain implicative design style and the natural, wild, simple, novel aesthetic temperament and interest; including the design method of teaching nature, learning culture, focusing on function, integration, combination, respecting geography, human, and time, as well as the design techniques of material, color, technology, scale, pattern, decoration.