The oriental garden system, represented by China, has influenced Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, and is dominated by natural gardens with elegant and exquisite artistic conception.
The garden in West Asia is characterized by dividing the flat land into four pieces with vertical and horizontal axes to form a square "field", and setting up a central fountain at the intersection of crossed avenues. The water from the central fountain irrigates the surrounding plants through cross canals. This layout is due to the dry climate and arid desert environment in West Asia, which makes people only manage a small oasis in their own courtyards.
European gardens originated from ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek gardens, with French classical gardens and British landscape gardens as outstanding representatives, and regular and natural garden compositions as gardening schools, respectively pursuing the interests of artificial beauty and natural beauty, and their artistic attainments are exquisite and unique, which are deeply loved by the western world.
Practical significance
A history of human gardens records the cognitive footprint of human beings' endogenous introspection on their own living environment. Ancient China walked in the forefront of the world with its broadness and poeticity of ecological laws of harmonious coexistence with nature, and the self-criticism of western introspection history also reached the forefront of the world.
With copper as a mirror, you can be well dressed; Take people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. From garden to modern landscape, environmental design, like other cultures, has come to this day in the historical atmosphere of inheritance, absorption, reference and integration.
It is an urgent and important task to learn from the basic experience and lessons of the historical development of Chinese and foreign gardens, inherit and carry forward the excellent garden culture of human beings, and provide scientific theoretical and practical basis for environmental garden activities in China, which has important theoretical value and practical significance.