The Three Important Symbolic Characteristics in Modern Chinese Garden History

The modern history of can be into two periods: the late Qing Dynasty before the Revolution of 1911, and the of after the Revolution of 1911. Among these, Chinese gardens were also deeply marked by the stigma of all times. In this paper the three important symbolic characteristics in modern Chinese garden history are analyzed: first, the royal gardens in Beijing experienced man-made disasters in 1860 and 1900, and Empress Dowager Cixi spent the navy funding for the reconstruction of the Summer Palace. Second, the theories and practices of Western urban planning, architecture, and landscape, brought by the foreign concessions and the Westernization Movement, grafted and fused with Chinese ones, and there has been a large number of Western style, especially Chinese and Western combined style buildings and courtyard gardens, whose layouts, architectural styles and artistic characteristics all have distinctive so-called Republic of China taste. Third, city parks began to appear in batches.