The Influence of Poetry, Literature and Other Traditional Cultures on China Garden Art

The ancient gardens in China are a synthesis of architecture, literature and art, and the thoughts, feelings, artistic conception and situations that support the idea of gardening come down in one continuous line with poetry and literature, all of which emphasize layout and artistic conception and are poetic and picturesque. The ancients sent their feelings to the mountains and rivers, originally for the sake of self-satisfaction, looking for inspiration for poetry and literature, and putting their feelings about nature into words, such as Li Bai; Later, it gradually developed into a private architectural garden, and applied his own understanding of literature and art to gardening, such as a poem in Wang Wei's Wangchuan Villa and Wangchuan Collection. The poet creatively constructed the scenery and wrote wonderful poems, calling himself "there is a picture in the poem and a poem in the picture". In fact, there are poems in the garden, and there are gardens in the poems. In the Qing Dynasty, Qian Yong also said that "gardening is like writing" in "The Garden". Building a garden is similar to writing a poem, which requires a unique artistic conception, conception and layout. A master gardener can express his poetic and even musical feelings with flowers, trees and pavilions. It is precisely because tourists are there, like scrolls and poems.