Why Suzhou Garden is a perfect picture?

Overall characteristics: Pictorial beauty, in terms of layout, flowers, plants and trees, and building colors.

The general characteristic of Suzhou Garden is that "it must make the visitors, no matter what point they are standing on, is always a perfect picture in front of them", that is, the garden is "everywhere into the picture". This is the center of the whole text, "pictures" become the clues to the introduction of Suzhou Gardens.

In the introduction of the layout, the layout of the pavilions in the Suzhou Garden is compared with that of palaces and residences, highlighting the fact that the Suzhou Garden is not characterized by symmetry.

In introducing the flowers and trees, it says, "There are no pines and cypresses trimmed like pagodas, no parade-like roadside trees." The role of the analogy, comparison, copying the appearance: highlight the Suzhou Garden pruning trees with an eye to the picturesque.

In the introduction of the color of the buildings, and compared with the Beijing gardens, "the difference with the Beijing gardens, rarely use color painting." Highlighting the beauty of color in Suzhou gardens.

Extended information:

This article is a preface written by Ye Lao for a book of photographs of Suzhou gardens.At the beginning of 1979, a publisher in Hong Kong was planning to publish a book of photographs describing the gardens of Suzhou, and asked Ye Lao to write a preface.

Ye old 22 years ago, has been living in suzhou, after school, often and good friends visit suzhou garden, suzhou garden interest and features have a deep experience, write this preface and refer to professor chen from zhou compilation of "suzhou garden" book.

After the preface was written, it was handed over to the Hong Kong publisher, but the picture book has not been published. The editorial board of Encyclopedic Knowledge knew that Ye had such an article, so they asked to let them publish it first, and the preface was published in Encyclopedic Knowledge, No. 4, 1979.

The last few sentences of the preface were deleted when it was published. People's Education Publishing House put it into the language textbook, and deleted the first paragraph of the preface, the original title "Humble Administrator's Gardens send deep love - talk about Suzhou gardens" was also changed to "Suzhou gardens".