Abstract:

The multiple character of forest beauty is emphasized, including multiplicity of modality, component and enjoy-lever. Based on modality, forest beauty is consisted of natural beauty, social beauty and artistic beauty. Based on component, forest beauty can be distinguished into beauty of forest plants, beauty of forest animals, beauty of landforms, beauty of forest air, beauty of rocks and special geological structure, and beauty of water bodies in forest area. Based on enjoy lever, forest beauty includes form beauty and artistic conception beauty. The characteristics of natural beauty of forest plants is analysed, viz., richness, multileveled, form-beauty dominated, public appreciable and consistency. The scene composing principle of forest plants was put forward, including uniformity, contrast, sequence, arrangement, salient, enframement, convergence, naturalization, and large diameter management purpose. According to distance and size of enjoying object, forest plant landscapes can be divided into 7 types, viz., detail landscape, individual landscape, in forest landscape, forest lined road landscape, foreground landscape, mid ground landscape and far away landscape. The meaning and scene composing character of each type is explained and expounded. Finally, the difference of importance of 15 scene composing factors among foreground landscape, mid ground landscape and far away landscape are listed and compared.

Key words: Forest beauty, Natural beauty of forest plants, Landscape, Form beauty