Humble administrator's garden (Chinese garden)

Humble administrator's garden (Chinese garden). 15AR820 LANDSCAPE DESIGN.

1140 (Southern Song Dynasty): built by Shi Zhengzhi , Named Wanjuan Tang. 1765 (Qing Dynasty): Renovated by Song Zongyuan , Named Wangshi Yuan. 1917: Owned by Zhang Xiluan , Named Yi Yuan 1940: Name changed back to Wangshi Yuan 1950-58: renovated by the government and open to the public.

1. SITING :. The Humble Administrator's Garden was located in the northeast of the Suzhou city It is an irregular shaped site of 13.8 acres. The garden contains numerous pavilions and bridges set among a maze of connected pools and islands . It consists of Eastern, Western and Central parks as well as residences of the former owners. In total, the garden contains 48 different buildings with 101 tablets, 40 steles, 21 precious old trees, and over 700 Suzhou-style penjing / penzai ..

3. planning :. The outdoor pavilions are elegantly furnished, flowers of different kinds be seen everywhere. The whole scene looks like a picture with rich south han Chinese people. Today, the humble administrator's garden was divided into three parts: the east, the middle, and the west..

The Eastern Section covers an area of 31 mu (5 acres) and is divided into four tourist spots .. On the east of the garden is a vast lawn with earth pile hill standing in the west. Above the hill is wooden pavilions surrounded by flowing water and willow ..

In order to avoid the situation that one must go through the dwelling part to get to the garden, the Humble Administrator's Garden adds an outdoor direct entrance and exit. When it was first built, lawn was left, so the lane was so long that the axis line of the garden was narrow and zigzag..

Starting from the Chinese ‘Taoism’ and ‘Circle’, which is underlines great perfection, the touring path of the Humble Administration Garden moves in circle and never end. Generally speaking, there are two kinds of touring paths: 1 ) Corridor or Path or Rooms Corresponding with the Mountain and Pool. 2 ) Small Roads on the Mountain and Bridges on or Cave in Rivers..

5. Function :. Living, Resting Playing and Reading.

6. Use of water :. Built around mountains and by rivers, the touring path fully utilized the waterscape to show the meaning of circulating and endlessness..

Many of the landscapes in the garden are directly linked to flowers and trees, for example the Garden of Pipa , Hall of Far off Fragrance, Hall of Yulan Magnolia, Spring castle of Malus spectabilis , Stay and Listen Pavilion, Listening to the Rain Pavilion and so on. Garden is not only a kind of visual art, but also related to hearing, smelling and other senses. In addition, seasons and other seasonal climate changes, such as rain and snow weather will change the space conception and affect people's feelings. Stay and Listen Pavilion(see upper left picture ) is mainly focus on rain watching, east and south sides of the building are in the pool. And the pool is filled with lotus . The fragrant snow and azure cloud Pavilion(see left lower picture) is located on a small hill in the middle of the garden, surrounding it there are many wintersweets besides several high trees, therefore every cold season in a year, the tough wintersweets will be in full bloom. Then the fragrance of the flower and the beauty of the snow will shine each other. Listening to the Rain Pavilion(see right picture),is in a corner of this pavilion planted by banana trees,when in the raining days, by the sound effect produced by rain hitting the banana trees, it will render an amazing atmosphere of rain. In addition, there are sweet scented osmanthus , YuLan , peach bamboo as a foil to make the four seasons appear different scenery..

The artistic value of garden not only lies on the construction factors, Men of literature and writing, as the master of the garden, their works also play a big role. And once the garden has this culture meaning, it will develop the depth and breadth of the landscape spiritually, that will lead to endless daydream accordingly. Orchid and Snow Parlour , in the east of the garden, its name comes from the famous poet Libai’s poem” du li tian di jian , qing feng lan xue ”. At the same time, “take a broad view pavilion” comes from Poet Bai juyi’s famous poem”fang yan kan qing shan ”.” Hall of Far off Fragrance” comes from Poet Zhou dunyi’s”xiang yuan si yi ”. “Frost Pavilion” comes from the Poet Wei yingwu’S poem”dong ting xu dai man lin shuang ” “The fragrant snow and azure cloud Pavilion” comes from Poet Sushi’s poem” hua jian zhi jiu qing xiang fa,zheng wan chang tiao luo xiang xue ”. The poem make people feel moved in the scenery, and Landscape named in poetic meaning. The garden cultural information is conveyed by poem, that added more dimensions to culture meaning of the garden, and make everyone exposed to a strong cultural atmosphere.

1 Waterscape was highlighted. 2 All the architectures were designed with the landscape so it won’t damage the prospect. 3 Mountains and pools are built under the design of the excellent architectures to match the scene. 4 Corridor Bridges were long and zigzag, thus making more poetic sense. 5 The scene and landscape were decorated with plants that are also grouped to manifest the meaning and intention of the designer ..