Truth and Goodness arise Beauty: The Multi-dimensional Ecological Value of the Landscape Ecology of Yanshan Garden in Guilin

Abstract

Yanshan Garden benefits from the complex cultural history and the background of the garden construction of the true mountain and the true water, so that it has the multiple values of “natural ecology”, “historical ecology” and “cultural ecology”, and becomes the best place to stimulate and enhance people’s “four hearts” authentic emotion on the whole. The historical and cultural inheritance of Yanshan garden after several changes; Social purposes for running schools and planting plants; Garden construction of true mountains and waters; Research atmosphere where famous people gather together; The inheritance of the red spirit and the revolutionary spirit is difficult for other gardens to have the innate conditions at the same time, and Yanshan Garden, as the noumenon of the garden, as the whole has these innate conditions of the core of Confucian aesthetic thoughts, generating the multidimensional value of “goodness and beauty”. People enter the Yanshan Garden, the body and mind inhabit the sound of nature in the home, in the green life can realize the Chinese style of the path of beauty. From the perspective of its scale, shape and landscape ecology, Yanshan Garden is the representative of Lingnan garden, showing the ideal of living in the home of nature. To become the home of nature is the highest realm of garden, the highest criterion of garden structure, and the profound reason why Yanshan Garden is renowned as “the first garden in Lingnan”.