Elaboration on Chinese Style Landscape Design Based on Taoist Thought and Culture

The long standing Chinese Taoism, whose philosophical thought of “heaven and earth co-exist in harmony, and united with everything” enriches all of the creations. Chinese traditional landscape, inheriting and profiting from excellent philosophical ideas, embodies the value of harmonious coexistence between human and nature, by the essence of “adapting to local conditions and leaning on the trend”. The new Chinese style landscape, belonging to an evolution based on traditional design, lays great emphasis on spiritual connotation of “the union of heaven and human beings”. Taking residential landscaping design project as an example, this paper analyses the expressive mode of Chinese style landscape design based on Taoist thought and culture, and aims to apply traditional artistic style into modern design and find the way to express landscape design.