What is the "four elegant" window?

Leakage window for the garden architecture in the decorative sketches. It is in the window holes decorated with a variety of flowers or art patterns, but does not prevent the outward view, so it is also known as leaky window, flower window. Leakage window itself has a view, the window window outside the scene and vaguely visible, breaking the closed space, with the effect of implicit gardening.

In traditional gardens, the construction of leaky windows is mainly brick and mortar materials. The theme of flowers, birds and animals, landscapes or geometric shapes, which is the most peculiar when pushed to the Suzhou Lion Grove "four elegant" leakage window.

The so-called "four elegant", is the ancient good qin, chess, calligraphy, painting four elegant things. Lion Grove small square hall on the north side of the patio of the pink wall, four exquisite funnel window, in turn, molded with the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting patterns. "Zither", window molding a zither, decorated around the plum blossom pattern; "chess", window molding a Go board model, surrounded by flowers; "book", window molding a letter in the shape of a thread-bound book The "book", a letter in the flower window molded wire-bound book model, around a flower; "painting", flower window molded scroll model, surrounded by geometric shapes, and there are vines to maintain the system.

"Four elegant" leakage window, active flat wall. Inside and outside the window two-way "leakage landscape", "lead to the landscape; white patterns in different light illumination, resulting in changes in gray and black shadows; under the window, planted with evergreen geraniums, Dianthus and Luohan pines, the whole mood of the elegant and ancient light.