中国园林为什么是山水园

Why Chinese Gardens Are Landscape Gardens

当人类结束渔猎或游牧生活,开始了农耕定居并建设家园,园林就产生了。那些可以被认为是园林雏形的一些人工环境最早都是实用性的,或是种植作物、蔬菜和果树以获取基本生活资料的院子,或是为祭祀及宗教仪式而建造的特殊场所。这些都是园林的起源,也是园林最初的样子。从整体上看,园林发展的历程是实用性不断减弱、观赏性不断加强的过程。

Gardens came into being when mankind ended its fishing,hunting or nomadic life and began to settle down to farming and building homes.Some of the man-made environments that can be considered as prototypes of gardens were first utilitarian,either courtyards where crops,vegetables and fruit trees were grown to obtain the basic means of living,or special places built for rituals and religious ceremonies.These are the origins of gardens and what they were originally like.