Influences of Turkish Culture on the Chinese Understanding of Gardens in Early Ages

Chinese gardening arts, arranging with brought together natural and cultural elements which involve various characters in a functional manner, are attracted by the many landscape architect today. Chinese culture was affected by the Sky God religion of Turkish and features being holly of the nature and assets in this religion are resulted as respecting to flowers, trees, stones, water, sun, in short to nature in Chinese culture. The significant improvement of gardening art culture in Chine was especially the more influence of this religion. Chinese garden art, holding important place in the garden art, reached the current situation with the effect of various religions and cultures. Studying the historical development of this art, attracting the interest of many landscape architecture, would definitely help us better understanding of the Chinese gardening philosophy. İn this article witch topic is “the Chinese of the Turkish Culture on the Chinese Garden Philosphy and Art”, Chinese garden culture and the influencing factors of this culture are studied with the sight of Confucianism and Taoizim which have two thousands years history and resembles in a very good manner the Chinese cultural considirations and religious life. Also, Chinese garden arrangament philosophies, religious movements influenced these philosophies and influencing factors of these religious movements on the garden philosophies are investigated for forming todays the gardens which have these values. In this study, it is targeted to examining the basic concepts of Chinese traditional gardening art and philosophy with studying the Chinese culture and emphasized the effects of Turkish Culture on the Chinese gardening art. Also, the effects of Turkish culture, religions and life style on Chinese culture and gardening art philosophy are studied for revealing the factors affecting the Chinese gardening philosophy.

Keywords

China, China Gardening Art, China Gardening Culture, Turkish Culture