Since ancient times, bamboo has been used for gardening and landscaping. Bamboo is one of the most distinctive and indispensable plant landscaping materials in China's landscape design. Because of its special aesthetic feeling and cultural heritage, bamboo has been favored by scholars in ancient China, and has been widely used in landscape architecture since ancient times, and has been appreciated and approved by people. Many literati even express their feelings in their hearts and express their aspirations through bamboo.
The Chinese people have a special liking for bamboo. The history of bamboo appreciation can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago. In the process of bamboo appreciation, they often have feelings and personify the particularity of bamboo. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, many private gardens in Luoyang officialdom presented the scene of "all peaches and plums are green in summer, bamboo and cypresses are green in winter". The "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest", which worships bamboo and loves bamboo and loves bamboo and loves bamboo, is even more advocating bamboo gardening. Especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties, China's culture and art flourished unprecedentedly, promoting the prosperity of gardening, and then bamboo gardening entered its peak period. The famous "Pingquan Villa" by Li Derong, "Wangchuan Bieye" by Wang Wei, "Chengdu Thatched Cottage" by the Ministry of Du Gong, "Dongpo Garden" by Su Shi, etc., large garden bamboos, together with green trees, flowers and grass, have become natural scenery for hundreds of generations. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, bamboo garden was the first garden in Jiangnan. The Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, which features "secluded bamboo houses", "bamboo paths leading to seclusion", "bamboo corridors supporting green trees" and other garden arts, is used for reference by most gardens. In particular, the "natural painting" of the Old Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty, in which thousands of green bamboos are used as the "Five Blessing Hall", presents the bamboo garden scene of "clear and dripping poles, all of which grow cool". The wind blows, the dragon sings thin, and the phoenix tail is dense, which really makes people feel "the wind branches are exposed, and the sleeves are green". Among them, Xiangfei Bamboo has created an intoxicating landscape in the "natural painting" and has become a masterpiece of bamboo in the oriental artistic atmosphere. As for the contemporary Anji Bamboo Garden in Zhejiang Province, Wangjianglou Park in Chengdu and other special bamboo gardens, which are famous for their bamboos and different landscapes, of course, they show more of the charm of bamboo shade, sound, charm, light, shadow and interest, and win with a variety of bamboos.
Jianke garden landscape has deeply realized the importance of bamboo in today's garden construction, and put the role of bamboo in landscape greening in a prominent position. In the process of landscaping, bamboo plants play the following roles:
1. Function
The space composed of bamboo and other garden plants has the functions of purifying air, absorbing dust, reducing noise, killing bacteria, eliminating pollution, adjusting air humidity, improving microclimate, conserving water and soil, shading and cooling.
2. The role of art
Bamboo has four beauties:
1) Beautiful color
Yi Yi green bamboo, like jasper, green as wash, light eyes.
2) Beauty of posture
It is elegant and tall, with sparse branches and strong rods, and the phoenix tail is dense and swaying.
3) Phonological beauty
Shake the wind and rain, drip the empty court, knock at the windows, and make sounds in autumn.
4) Artistic conception beauty
In the early morning, the bamboo forest reveals fog, and the green shadow leaves. On a moonlit night, Fu Ying reflects the window like a frame of black bamboo.
In addition, bamboo also has the beauty of consciousness, which is endowed with a variety of connotative characteristics, such as a gentleman's integrity, constancy, indifference, modesty, etc. Because bamboo contains such multi-level cultural and aesthetic values, it runs through the history of Chinese poetry, painting, gardening and even cultural psychology, forming a unique traditional Chinese bamboo culture and classical garden bamboo landscape, which has a positive and far-reaching impact on the garden style of China and even the world.
As a Chinese garden with a long history of inheriting bamboo culture, it has always been called "silent poetry, three-dimensional painting", and is loved by people in the East and West. The profound implication of Chinese bamboo culture has greatly promoted the emergence and development of bamboo landscaping, making bamboo widely used in Chinese gardens and becoming one of the characteristics of Chinese gardens. Modern gardens should fully draw on some artistic techniques of bamboo landscaping in classical gardens, and skillfully use bamboo culture, which can play the role of finishing touch.