The landscape art of the Old Summer Palace

Author: He Chongyi
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book focuses on the royal gardens in the western suburbs of Beijing, centered around the Yuanmingyuan (including Yuanming, Changchun, and Qichun gardens), and their overall planning. It provides an in-depth elaboration and analysis of the artistic value, creative concepts, and design techniques of Yuanmingyuan in the history of Chinese architecture and garden design. The book accumulates a wealth of precious historical materials, poems, and paintings, making it highly valuable both academically and artistically. This book primarily introduces the garden art of Yuanmingyuan (including Yuanming, Changchun, and Qichun gardens), offering a comprehensive overview of the royal gardens in the western suburbs of Beijing centered around Yuanmingyuan and their overall planning. It provides an in-depth elaboration and analysis of the artistic value and achievements of Yuanmingyuan in the history of Chinese architecture and garden design, as well as its creative concepts and design techniques. The book is rich in valuable historical materials, poems, and paintings. For example, the color silk paintings of "Forty Scenes of Yuanmingyuan" by court painters of the Qianlong period, Shen Yuan and Tang Dai, and the poems of the Qianlong Forty Scenes written by the famous Qing official Wang Youdun, are original works preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The complete color facsimiles of these works have now been fully compiled into this book, making them available to the general public for the first time. The book is rich in materials, detailed in content, and illustrated with images, making it highly valuable for promoting national culture, researching ancient garden art, and understanding the history of Yuanmingyuan.