On The Artistic Presentation Of Subject Spirit From Chinese Ancient Gardens And Japanese Dry Landscape Gardens

As both the creator and viewer,people usually refer two systems while creating gardens: one is the surrounding environment,the other is human themselves.This paper takes the case of Chinese ancient garden,like the literati gardens in the south of the Yangtze River in Song,Yuan and Ming dynasties,and Zen garden in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods to analysis that how they satisfied people's spiritual needs,from the aspects of beauty,beauty-appreciation and aesthetic.In terms of beauty,the Chinese ancient garden created a natural beauty while the Zen gardens have a beauty of artistic.From the view of beauty-appreciation,the former is conveyed by in-motion viewing and tour while the latter is conveyed by in-position viewing and realizing affected by Zen.In terms of aesthetic,the former is like a elegant and clear three dimensional poem and painting while the latter is like a meditation mind garden which has a sense of consolidation and dry-light.Both Chinese ancient garden and Japanese Zen garden expressed people's desirability of freedom in the limited status like unstable and painful.They are turned into places where people's spirits are freed.But their difference is people have different understandings of their existence.The emptiness Chinese garden showed is to balance the hubbub in real life,while the mystery and peace of Zen garden is to solve it.From the view of process and intuition activity during purifying the heart,Chinese ancient garden cleaned people's inner dirt through motivating all the intuition activities,to give them inner peace.On the other hand,Japanese Zen garden let people be less disturbed from voice and countenance and reach a peaceful state from purifying heart.