Classical Chinese Garden Design
Some elements that aren t actually in the garden are part of the design as well.
Classical chinese garden design. Chinese scholar s rocks are used both for structural and sculptural purposes. A chinese garden is a place of beauty serenity and a spiritual connection with nature that provides busy people with much needed respite from a noisy stressful world. For example some gardens purposely have a view of a mountain from one of its many scenes.
This kind of garden layout imitates real terrain. After their evolution of many dynasties chinese garden design matured as a comprehensive school of its own during the qing dynasty 1644 1912. The earliest recorded chinese gardens were in the yellow river valley in the shang dynasty 1600 1046bc.
Classical chinese gardens were surrounded by a white wall. In the 4th century bc a tale in the classic of mountains and seas described a peak called mount penglai located on one of three islands at the eastern end of the bohai sea between china and korea which was the home of the eight immortals on this island were palaces of gold and silver with jewels on the trees. Traditional chinese garden architecture in the real sense first appeared in the tang dynasty somewhere between 618 ad and 907 ad.
In these gardens usually the ground is like that of a mountain area. This research analyzes and compares the design and building methods of classical chinese gardens to find their meaning in heritage protection and design. Moon gates and specially carved windows.
This photo collage breaks down many of the elements of a chinese garden. Back then they were very simple only consisting of a raised platform surrounded by vegetation. Though not all classical chinese gardens have these elements they are all part of what distinguishes chinese garden design.
A classical garden seems to be a chaos of vegetation water and buildings inside a gate but besides the chaos there are systems of design principles that are worth to analysis and learn. Let s learn more about how to create a chinese garden of your own. What defines the style of a chinese garden.