Understanding of Garden Culture

Royal gardens are called Yuan, Y u, Gong Yuan, Garden in Garden and Imperial Garden in ancient books. Generally built in the capital, adjacent to the palace, equivalent to a private house. They are called "Ounei Imperial Gardens", which are grand and magnificent. The imperial palace garden is used by emperors for occasional leisure or short-term residence. As a place where emperors live and handle state affairs for a long time, the imperial palace garden is equivalent to a political center connected with ouchi.

2. Literati Garden

Literati gardens represent the essence of residential gardens. Generally speaking, they are very small, unable to accommodate many scenes, and lack the magnificent and suffocating beauty of gardens. However, they have a unique charm, which can make people linger. The key is to integrate the garden landscape with the master's literary mind and cultivation. The scenery of literati gardens is mostly elegant. Elegance here mainly refers to tranquility and nature, freshness and charm, simplicity and indifference, and elegance. Another feature of literati gardens is the close combination of garden appreciation function and residence function, that is, the unity of so-called "tour" and "residence".

3. Temple Garden

Temple gardens are another category of classical gardens in China. As far as horticulture is concerned, it refers not only to gardens attached to Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, but also to gardens belonging to buildings serving religious beliefs and consciousness worship. In ancient China, the objects of belief and worship were more complicated, and various types of buildings appeared, usually with gardens, which also brought the diversity of temple gardens.

Ancestor worship is another common cultural phenomenon in ancient China. In famous mountains and rivers, there are often memorial buildings to commemorate ancient celebrities or national heroes, such as Yue Temple in Hangzhou, Wuhou Temple in Chengdu and Xiangyang, Du Fu Caotang in Chengdu, Du Gong Temple in Shaanxi, Lanting and Wang Youjun Temple in the southern suburbs of Shaoxing. It was built to commemorate historical celebrities such as Yue Fei, Zhuge Liang, Du Fu and Wang Xizhi. In fact, they are another type of ancestral temple buildings.

Another feature of temple gardens is that they have some comprehensive public gardens. In order to receive some pilgrims and tourists, some temples always have living and entertainment facilities. Some temples and gardens have guest rooms for scholars to study or spend the night.

4, suburban landscape architecture

Suburban landscape garden refers to a garden scenic spot located in the suburbs of the city, which is made up of nymph of original natural landscape, combined with landscape management and construction, and properly processed and transformed. It is a public tourist area with natural scenery as the basic skeleton and urban residents as the main body. They are very close to modern parks in nature, and fully embody the tradition of conforming to nature and beautifying nature in planning and layout. They are the transition between urban gardens and famous mountains and rivers.