What does it mean to give people a sense of openness by borrowing water from outside the garden?

Borrowing water from outside the garden gives people a sense of openness.

Using the comparison of space size: in private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, residential houses are generally arranged on the border, while the main part in the middle gives way to decorative landscape to form the main space; Arrange several sub-spaces and local small spaces around this main space; Every space is connected with the big space. In this way, each family has its own characteristics and its priorities are clear.

Increase the depth of field and the level of scenery: in Jiangnan gardens, the landscape depth is mostly based on the length of the water surface, and stone forest wood or buildings are often arranged on both sides of the water flow, forming a form of sandwiched between two sides. With the help of the flickering, illusory and unpredictable characteristics of the water surface, looking at each other from both ends of the running water, the sense of space is invisibly increased.

Classical gardens are a wonderful flower in the treasure house of traditional culture in China, and their characteristics clearly reflect China people's outlook on nature and life. Compared with western garden art, classical gardens highlight the Chinese people's yearning and love for nature and beautiful living environment.

In the ancient gardens of China, there are mountains and waters, and there are buildings such as halls, corridors, pavilions, pavilions, buildings, platforms, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, restaurants, boats and walls. The shape and spirit of all buildings are consistent with the natural environment in heaven and underground, and at the same time, all parts of the garden are naturally connected, so that the garden embodies the artistic characteristics of natural weakness, quietness and implication, and receives the ornamental effects of step by step, getting better and better, and seeing the big from the small.

Shanglinyuan in Qin and Han Dynasties pioneered artificial mountain building. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liang Yi initiated a precedent from yearning for the fairy world to imitating natural landscapes, which indicated that garden art took real life as its starting point.