Landscaping techniques in Chinese classical gardens

The common types of landscaping in classical Chinese gardens can be summarized as borrowed landscape, opposite landscape, frame landscape, leakage landscape, barrier landscape and so on.

Borrowed scenery is the garden outside the scene introduced and superimposed with the scene inside the garden gardening techniques, but also one of the most important gardening techniques of classical Chinese gardens, this technique can make up for the small scale of space and the lack of financial resources. Typical examples of good borrowed scenery, such as the Summer Palace Kunming Lake far borrowed from the West Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, the Humble Administrator's Garden far borrowed from the North Temple Pagoda, Canglang Cang neighbor borrowed from the Turnip Creek, and so on.

The opposite view is between the subject and the object through the axis to determine the relationship between the line of sight gardening techniques, due to the fixed line of sight, visual viewing is far less free than the borrowed view. Counterpoint has a strong constraint, easy to produce order, serious and noble feeling, so commonly used in monumental or large public **** building, and with the combination of clamped scenery, frame scenery, the formation of solemn, solemn landscape.

Boxscape is a conscious setting of the box hole structure, and guide the viewer in a specific location through the box hole to enjoy the scenery of the landscaping techniques. The frame has great attraction to the visitors, easy to produce painting-like pleasing artistic effect. Du Fu's poem: "the window contains a thousand snowy autumns in the West Ridge, the door is moored to the East Wu Wanli ship", is the best portrayal of the effect of framed scenery.

Leakage scene, also known as leakage scene, generally refers to the scene seen through the virtual partition. The virtual barrier includes windows, fences and partitions. Scenery leakage on the one hand, easy to arouse the interest of visitors to explore the scenery and the desire, but on the other hand, the leakage of the scenery itself has a kind of misty illusory beauty. The use of leakage to contribute to the space of the ethereal and penetration is one of the important techniques of Chinese gardening.

Barrier landscape is set in the tour road or ornamental sites on the rocks, walls and flowers, etc., blocking the line of sight, so as to guide visitors to change the direction of the tour of the landscaping techniques. Barrier landscape garden to add "hidden" flavor, but also an important means of causing the effect of inhibition masking, and therefore widely used for generations of gardens.

Garden landscaping is like writing and painting, there is no fixed method. The same scenery painter can be expressed in different strokes, photographers can shoot from different angles, the same garden can be designed with different ideas. Hundreds of Jiangnan garden variations, each with its own wonderful. Therefore, the garden landscaping has a unique intention, to achieve "although someone made, like from heaven," the mood can be called a masterpiece. Each garden landscaping, not to ignore the dynamic view and static view of the scenery, usually small gardens should be static view of the main, dynamic view as a supplement. Follow the principle of "small see big", to create a "limited see infinite" beauty, pay more attention to the barrier landscape, framing, borrowed landscape and other techniques. In relatively large gardens, should be mainly dynamic view, supplemented by static view, should pay more attention to the division of space, through the scene, clip the scene, add the scene and other forms, resulting in or Kailang, or convergence, or deep, or smooth space, so that the scenery is more rich. In modern landscape gardening, the study of plant height, color, texture, dynamics and other configurations, composed of beautiful focal point of the landscape, will be a more important topic.