China's classical gardens in the late maturity of the three major styles of private gardens and their respective characteristics

1, smaller scale

Smaller scale, generally only a few acres to a dozen acres, the smaller one and a half acres only. The main idea of the gardeners is "to see the big in the small", that is, within the limited scope of the use of innuendo, depression, twists and turns, hints and other techniques to start the subjective re-creation of people, twists and turns, resulting in a seemingly inexhaustible scenery, expanding people's feelings about the actual space;

2, the construction of the water surface

Most of the water surface as the center, surrounded by a scattering of buildings, constituting an attraction, several attractions enclosed into a scenic spot;

2, the water surface as the center, scattered around the building, constituting an attraction, several attractions enclosed into a scenic spot. Attractions surrounded by a scenic spot;

3, cultivation of the body

To cultivate the body, leisure and self-indulgence as the main function of the garden;

4, elegant and refined

Garden masters are mostly literati, able to poems and paintings, and good at commenting on the style of the garden in order to be refined and refined, the highest pursuit of the light vegetarianism, overflowing with a strong sense of bookishness.

5, gardening techniques

In the layout of the flexible and varied techniques; good at imitating the image of natural landscape; very concerned about the detailed treatment of the garden.

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Matured Private Gardens

Matured Private Gardens

Matured Private Gardens p>The maturation of private gardens actually reflects the enduring conflict and fusion between China's feudal intellectuals and feudal power. The private gardens of the literati were originally inspired by the royal gardens, and they hoped to create mountains and waters to match heaven and earth, and to support their political ambitions.

But social upheaval and political corruption always disappointed the Chinese intellectuals who believed in rituals, so part of the scholars and scholars were influenced by the thought of Laozhuang, advocating nature, and the formation of the Confucian doctrine of the five elements of the more formalized view of heaven and earth as opposed to the concept of natural inaction as the core of the concept of heaven and earth.

So the landscape in the garden is no longer limited to the vast nine schools, the East China Sea, three mountains; and due to the suppression of feudal power and rituals, the scale of private gardens and architectural style is subject to a number of limitations, which coincides with the Zhuangzi Qi all the relativism of thought.

So from the period of the North and South Dynasties, private gardens are consciously small and expensive interest. Some intellectuals even borrowed the story fabricated by the Founder, the garden called "pot in the sky", to people in the small see big. Chinese intellectuals "pot in the world" to the Chinese nation left a set of aesthetic interests and garden tradition, leaving a large number of extremely valuable cultural heritage.

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