Research On Traditional Garden History Of Han Dynasty

More than 400 years of consolidated Han Dynasty has accumulated profound cultural background, which provides the precondition for the comprehensive and thorough evolution of gardens. While timberwork system got molded, traditional garden history of Han enters into a building era. Its evolutive rule and characteristic is to be emphasized: almost all kinds of gardens including imperial, vassal and private take the possession of landscape resources as basal foundation. Western Han inherited Qin's garden style and made great progress by imitating astronomical phenomena as possible. Design of Yuanzhongyuan and pattern of Yichi-sanshan left deep influence on later gardens. Primal private gardens were built by vassals and merchants prince, mostly copied the imperial ones' dimensions and contents. Garden technique dealing with rock and water has become popular.With a more complex atmosphere of thoughts, Eastern Han paid more attention to true life. Landscape is no longer simple for religion but as aesthetic object. Literati got a higher status and reclusion boost up. It was with the aid of Eastern Han literati's theoretical development and practices of aesthetic consciousness that Literati Garden of Weijin independently progressed in full flourish.