Yi Ran Lin Shui (Residing in the Realm of Chinese Gardens)

Author: Wang Yi
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: Chinese classical gardens are not only a highly enchanting category within Chinese culture and art but also serve as large-scale three-dimensional artistic and living spaces that widely absorb and gather achievements from other cultural and artistic disciplines. Therefore, Chinese gardens possess multiple classic values: they are themselves the crystallization of exquisite landscape art and landscape aesthetics, while simultaneously serving as a hall showcasing a dazzling array of cultural and artistic masterpieces. Moreover, they are a winding path that guides people into the depths of Chinese aesthetic thinking and cultural psychology. The content of this book revolves around the above points, first introducing the scenic content, artistic styles, and principles of design in Chinese gardens, and then further exploring how gardens are intricately connected with numerous other cultural and artistic disciplines in China, as well as how they reflect the psychological characteristics and modes of thinking of the Chinese people in perceiving the world and its temporal and spatial dimensions. The book primarily focuses on three major aspects: the artistic features and methods of Chinese classical gardens, how Chinese classical gardens complement and interact with Chinese culture and art, and the spiritual realm of Chinese classical gardens. The book uses many representative illustrations to explain the main content of Chinese classical garden art. Especially below the images, it provides concise and clear textual descriptions to directly analyze the artistic features, structural principles, spatial principles, and other issues of each garden work indicated in the illustrations. It is believed that through such highly specific analyses, readers will discover countless detailed artistic methods in the garden scenes that initially appear as a chaotic and indistinguishable whole, such as the "correspondence between one mountain and one water," the "multi-layered spatial structure contained within a small scene," and the "scale ratios and turning methods between several courtyards," among others.