The form and significance of flower window

At the entrance of the garden, what we see most is the perfect and exquisite round door (also known as the Moon Cave Gate). Take Yangzhou, where the author lives, as an example: Xuyuanmen in Slender West Lake, the north gate of Jixiaoshanzhuang, the east gate of Geyuan, Tingzhu in a small valley, Tixi in the plain, Meihualing in Shi Kefa ancestral home and other well-known Diaoyutai. There is a wide hole on three walls, which can be seen at a glance. In the concept of China people, the circle is the image of the sun and the moon, and it is also a shape covered by the sky, representing a harmonious and generous ideal life with auspicious and beautiful attributes. Therefore, it is not only pleasing to the eye, but also of great significance to carefully set up such a round door and window that integrates the great realm of natural life in a private house garden with the purpose of settling down and paying tribute. As the saying goes, everything is round. Why is everything not round? The unusual love for circles in China's classical garden window architecture is very consistent with China's cosmology of harmony between man and nature and his philosophy of life advocating moderation and contingency.

● Places of interest for doors and windows.

The modeling patterns of garden flower windows are also closely related to the auspicious concept in folk traditional culture. The vase door contains a safe door, the peach-shaped door contains a longevity door, the gourd door contains children and grandchildren, the lamp window contains a bright A Ring of Endless Light, and the book window contains heirloom poems. One of the most common hexagonal doors and windows is also a popular spoken language: "66 Dashun". Through different forms of door and window combinations. Can produce richer associations. Square window and round door are square and round, hexagonal window and bottle door are stable and smooth, square window and octagonal door extend in all directions, and all kinds of matching windows are perfect. Living in the same cultural background, it is not difficult for people with a certain level of knowledge to understand the subtle and rich symbolic significance contained in the traditional flower window art, which integrates auspicious and peaceful subjective situations into the objective landscape of landscape architecture and conveys blessings, prayers, hopes and comforts between man and nature with unique vocabulary.