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Located at the main entrance area of the east gate of Nanning Garden Expo Park, " Podocarpus Garden" covers an area of about 1. 6 hectares. a, To present the pristine and connotative appearance of Podocarpus pine at this moment that everyone is familiar with, the designer studied humbly with poetic and ingenuity, just like a unsophisticated scholar who has just entered the society, re-examines the essence of Chinese classical freehand landscape gardens with a clear vision. It is another masterpiece of contemporary inheritance and promotion of freehand landscape gardens. Podocarpus Garden: Building a Garden with Chinese Classic Freehand Landscape In ancient Taoist thought, the classic academic theory of learning from nature was put forward. Taoism believed that Tao is the origin of everything in the world, "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, and the sky follows the nature. " In the history of landscaping in China for thousands of years, landscape architects who admire nature have taken the natural scenery and realm as the source of artistic creation, and pursued the spiritual realm of nature as the ultimate and highest goal, so as to achieve the goal of " it is made by humans yet it is natural With the development of urbanization and the rapid development of industry and technology today, the art of gardening in China and the world is constantly being given new connotations with the development of the times. From the European-style gardens that swept the country at the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese real estate industry has now been regarded by the world as a new Chinese garden that inherits and promotes the art of Chinese classical gardens. What has changed and developed is the way designers express gardens. What remain unchanged are people's ideals. The beautiful pursuit and yearning for homeland. To build a garden and make it a boutique, and realize a dream of the garden builders, we closely communicate with the organizer and decided to create a "freehand landscape garden". We refine and condense the artistic essence of mountains, water, stones, fog, forests in landscape paintings, landscape poems, landscape bonsai, and create contemporary ideal freehand landscape gardens through techniques such as "Earth Bonsai" and "Near-Nature Landscape Construction". It has become the unanimous pursuit and wish of the garden maker and the organizer. Guo Xi, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, once put forward the aesthetic theory of "the body is the mountains and rivers and take it". In this theory he said " It’s totally different when you see the mountains closely or in the distance. ” It also sums up that there are “three distances” of the mountains. From the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, it is called “high and far”, from the front of the mountain is called “profound”, and from the near mountain to the distant mountain is called “level far". Podocarpus Garden cleverly borrowed from the three-distance artistic conception of the painters of the Northern Song Dynasty. From the bottom of the stream, it is close to the top of the mountain. The cliffs and the grass are all over the sky. The winding stream and pine forests can be described as "profound". From the top of the mountain to the platform, looking at the top of the mountain, the trees are uneven, one after another, like a painting scene, which can be described as "flat and distant. " The Podocarpus Garden is located in one of the seven quarry pits in the Garden Expo Park. Long-term artificial mining has created unformed geographical landscapes such as cliffs, cliffs, mountain streams, and valleys. It is just like this unique geographical environment that allows a long-term stop Garden builders thinking about this have unique insights and ideas. Designers prefer a natural design which growing arbitrarily in accordance with nature. The gardener believes that since man-made mining damage has become this, and has experienced the test and baptism of nature without causing disaster, why not try to do half of the nature and use the power of nature to achieve the rebirth of the mine! Looking at the entire mine site, winding from east to west, the tall side wants to have the pavilion, so it is a Pixia pavilion, and the low valley can open the pond, so it plays the fish Yuan, the height is connected by the falling waterfall and the stream. Observe the origin of the water. ” Only by following the natural path and terrain, based on nature and reappearing nature, can be higher than nature. There three different ways of designing water features, we call it three distances,, which are broad, far-reaching, and far-reaching. When flowing water gathers together, it is wide. Garden gardeners use the method of stacking rocks in mountains to ingeniously integrate artificial water sources into the rocks. Visitors can't notice the traces of artificial when they visit here. Stacked waterfalls of various forms, large and small, gather together in the stream. The valley forms a spring pool, the shore is staggered with rocks, and the vegetation is dense. Although the grass slopes are made by humans, they are like the sky and the shape is like a mountain. Looking from a distance, reflecting in it, it can be described as "broad and far. " Looking down at the Pixia Pavilion, although it is a high point, the entire stream cannot be seen completely, or it is hidden in the woods, or embarrassed in the trestle bridge, or hidden in the stacked rocks and hillsides, winding and winding, pine forests and mountains are stacked. They are complementing each other at the endless streams of streams and water, which can be described as "profound"; Walk along the plank road from the high pavilions, the sound of waterfalls and falling water spreads through the empty valley, and then gradually disappears and disappears. The water surface is calm and unmarked. However, when you turn around, you will see the falling waterfall reappears, the flowing water is surging, and the koi fish are swimming freely.. After the running water flowed through the mountains and rocks, the open pool surface was like a quiet girl, flawless and gentle. Walking alone in the valleys and streams, the water environment is changeable, like a maze, which can be described as "far away. " It is in the same strain with Chinese painting, the use of climate factors such as the right time and place in the garden design to create the misty and misty valleys. The confusing and confusing scenery has become the finishing touch of the Podocarpus Garden’s design...... The gardener has a thorough insight into the geography and climate environment of the entire Podocarpus Garden, and concealed spray equipment on both sides of the relatively stable, uncirculated and humid gorge and stream. Whenever the spray is turned on, it coincides with the misty and rainy March in the southern spring, abandoning distracting thoughts and roaming here, pavilions, falling waterfalls, streams, stacked rocks, plank roads, podocarpus, etc. are looming in the hazy rain and fog, "I didn’t see the valley people in half of a year so that I was scared when I heard their laughter suddenly”. It’s just like a picture of a natural and dynamic Lingnan landscape with fog, the green hills are faint, and the clouds are eager to return... The Garden Expo Park is located in the Dingjia Mountain block about 12 kilometers southeast of Nanning Center. The unique hills and stone forest landforms create more uncertainty in the site itself. The unexpectedly excavated stone forest during the construction process triggered the gardener’s sensitive nerves. In the face of such a large-scale artificially excavated stone forest of different shapes, beautiful and ugly, in addition to facing sudden pressure, it is more Many are moved by this natural surprise...... No matter how many gifts are given by nature, in the eyes of garden builders, they are very particular about how much they can use. According to the size of the site, the shape of the site and the surrounding environment of the site, the stone forest that is suitable for excavation and planing of the site is the key object of design and construction. Large areas of white space and local vegetation patches make the performance of the stone forest more three-dimensional and vivid. In the depths of the stone forest, a small clear spring is drawn. From a distance, the stone forest overlaps with water, like thousands of silver dragons in the mountains and cliffs. Winding around... On the top of the grass slope, the original rock geometry is ploughed, with different shapes and different shapes; "Looking at the side as a ridge and peaks, different distances and heights", in the eyes of poetic designers, it is a few kilometers away In the distant mountains, the rocks are also peaks, the grass slopes are also alpine meadows, the weeds that unintentionally fly between the rocks, are also the living forests on the top of the mountain; such poetic sentiment and landscape interest are awe-inspiring and resonance. "The bright moon shines among the pine, the clear spring stone flows up", in the depths of the garden, a "live spring" slowly flows out under two squirrel-shaped stone cave gates. According to the calculation of the change in the height angle of the sun, the gardener placed the original two stones on the spot, so that there will be about two months of the year when the sun sets in the west, and it will just fall slowly along the cave., A closer look, it is like a double leopard striving for glory, ingenious workmanship. Giant mountains and big rivers, historic sites and famous parks, are the first to be in air. If the mountains, rocks, water, and fog in the Podocarpus pine garden are the scriptures and rosaries of the holy monks, the Podocarpus pine is the robes, which can be seen clearly at a glance, and the most difficult tobe seen. "Gold and white jade is not expensive, but robes are the most difficult. " It is extremely difficult to use Podocarpus to shape the logo of the entire garden and cannot find any works for reference. The entire large circular site is like a large-scale realistic bonsai pattern, and Podocarpus chinensis plays the role of body and soul in the culture of Chinese bonsai. Therefore, borrowing the method of earth bonsai to create the Podocarpus pine garden is the choice to directly hit the designer's mind. When a podocarpus is planted individually, it could be beautiful scenery by itself. Next to Xianbaitai, the highest point of the Arhat Park, a podocarpus pine with slant and elegant shapes stands on the top of the park. No matter in the sun or sunset, you can see the poetic beauty of Xianbai. When podocarpus are planted in a pair, they are complementary for one and another and become a landscape scenery. The two rituals are either coexisting or complementing each other. At the entrance of the Podocarpus Garden courtyard, two robust and graceful and evergreen podocarpus are planted at the left and right ends of the entrance, one on the left and the right, and the two are in harmony; on both sides of the Podocarpus Garden road, Two Podocarpus, which resembles a beckoning hand, echo each other in a distance, and grow into each other; in the garden, two plants form a scene, one of the left crown is missing, and the other right is missing. The two plants are cleverly planted together, and the two instruments complement each other, like a combination of Yin and Yang, Can also become a scene. Podocarpus pine group is planted as forest, and the forest becomes the scenery, and the details are not investigated for generality. Podocarpus pine is planted in the "Earth Bonsai" in three to five forest groups. Individual plants may be lacking, and there is no harm in group planting. They build on each other's strengths and avoid weaknesses to form a complete Podocarpus forest landscape. We believe that deep down of every gardener there is always an ideal garden of dreams. It might be a secret garden full of European style, a poetic landscape garden, or a modern garden that advocates simplicity and atmosphere; We build a garden, utilize the land of all things, the dense meadow on the top of the mountain, the pine forest on the cliff wall, and the green sea at the foot of the mountain. it is the ideal garden in the dreams of the gardeners of " Podocarpus Garden".
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