ISHS Acta Horticulturae 759: XXVII International Horticultural Congress - IHC2006: Global Horticulture: Diversity and Harmony, an Introduction to IHC2006
THE ART OF CHINESE IMPERIAL GARDENS IN THE QING DYNASTY (1644-1911) |
| Author: | X. Liu |
| Keywords: | Chinese culture, landscape architecture, picturesque composition |
| Abstract:
The Chinese Imperial Gardens, originated around 3,000 years ago, as informal palaces or part of formal palaces for worship, recreation, living, and administration based on hilly-aquatic landscapes and water culture. The imperial gardens in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), located in Beijing and Chengde, created the North Style Gardens by means of incorporating the heritage of former gardens, addressing local natural and cultural contexts, and learning from the South Style Garden – the Scholar’s Gardens. They are regarded as landmarks in the history of Chinese gardens. They are magnificent, glorious, and mysterious. “Better than nature though from nature” was the main idea in creating these imperial gardens. Their artistic characters explored: (1) beauty of harmony, (2) symbolic meanings, (3) poetic feeling and picturesque composition, (4) borrowed landscape, (5) framed landscape, (6) leaking landscape, (7) blocking landscape, and (8) facing landscape. | |
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