Aesthetic Comparison of Chinese and Western Landscape Culture

Abstract

There are very obvious differences between Chinese and western landscapes aesthetics. In terms of the relationship between human and nature, while Chinese philosophy advocates the "harmony between man and nature," and "the unity of subject and object,†western philosophy holds the opposite relation between human and nature. This philosophic difference will inevitably lead to their difference in landscape aesthetics. Therefore, Chinese and westerners have their own different characteristics in respect of aesthetic perspective, preference, interest, inner meaning, and humanistic performance and so on.