Language: Chinese and English bilingual
ISBN/ISSN: 7222027408/J?162
Published on: 1999-01
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Contents
Origin and development of Chinese Garden
1. types of Chinese gardens
2. evolution of the imperial gardens
3. evolution of scholar’s gardens
4. evolution of the scenic resort gardens
5. influence of Chinese gardens on the garden-making art of Japan and European countries
Basic Concepts for Garden Designing in Ancient China
1. idea about the immortals and the imperial gardens
2. conception for constructing the “ Heaven on the Earth ” in the royal gardens
3. condensing beautiful scenes of the country into gardens was one of the influence for designing the imperial gardens
4. influence on the scholar’s garden exerted by the Taoist philosophy and the Confucian morality
5. Garden-making in the same way as composing literary essays
6. poetic sensations embodied in the spaces of gardens
7. paintings and gardens
Unique Characteristics of China’s Garden-making
1. mountains and waters, the “backbone” of Chinese gardens
2. diversified garden spaces
3. scene-borrowing was an important principle of Chinese garden-making art
4. kaleidoscopic architectural patterns
5. rhymes showed by curvatures in China’s gardens
6. theatricality of the garden spaces
Garden Plants and Arrangements
1. overview
2. species of garden plants
3. arrangements of garden plants
Decoration and Embellishment of Gardens
1. decorative articles in the gardens
2. rock placement
3. bridges
4. windows and circular doorways
5. flower-pattern pavement on garden trials
6. decoration with calligraphic works
