| This essay will start with analysis of Chinese literators'thought and Chinese classic gardens'development to point out at a intensive level of how the literators'thought greatly influenced the classic gardens. Meanwhile it will brings out the illumination for modern gardens'development from those literators'thought to integrate into the modern art and best serve the design of modern garden. 1. Literators'thought and Chinese classic garden (1) Brief introduction of literators'thought In the history of Chinese traditional culture, the Confucianism and Taoism are two main streams in the nation's thousands of years'history, which are also the cause of literators'thought. In the time of Wei Dynasty, Jin Dynasty and Nanbei Period, metaphysics gained prosperity by focusing on naturism. At the same time the overwhelming wars forced literators to retreat in forests and mountains to formalized the thought. Till the time of Tang and Song dynasties, Zen got popular among scholar-bureaucrats by encouraging them to seek for peaceful and unselfish life in the uncertain fortune. The scholar-bureaucrats started pursuing a new level of thought featuring ethereality and piece, making a ever mature level of Chinese literators'thought. (2) Development of Chinese classic gardens China's garden art started in Shang and Zhou Dynasty, at that time, known as You, a primary form of Chinese classic garden. Through hundreds of years development and improvement from Weiji, Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasty, Chinese classic gardens gained maturity and received perfection in Ming and Qing Dynasty. This part of the essay will try to introduce each dynasty's gardens in terms of characteristics and provide deeper understanding of the penetration and influence of literators'thought over the design of classic gardens. 2. Representations of literators'thought on the design of classic gardens (1) Sentiment Sentiment is the core and soul of Chinese traditional art. Our nation's classic gardens are most famous for its idyllic style, which is of course the result of the garden designers. In addition, literators of old time were all full of sentiments in their hearts and were always viewing art taste with sight full of those sentiments, this is what the old sayings of tasting things with sentiment and enjoy scenery with sentiment. (2) Scenery The scenery in our nation's classic gardens does not indicate nature but the subject activity of bearing sentiment inside the design of scenery objects, pursuing interest and verve outside the actural outline and integrating frames of object and mind to empower human's spirit. As a result, classic gardens intends to create a kind of atmosphere of hearting feelings to provide visitors with special interest. (3) Conception Chinese classic gardens received their designs from poems and prose, making a solid poem and a 3-D picture by the usage of special lyric languageand tact, forming its own level of artistic standard and profound implication. So it is no doubt that people can find perfect fruits of traditional culture and art and combination of artistic interest and literators'feelings, putting up the core of China's traditional culture. (4) Interest Interest is an unique aesthetic category of China's classic art, generally it is a kind of active implication lies in artistic image. Chinese classic gardens emphasize on idyllic meaning, resulting in the scenery concludes interest drawn from anecdotes and culture. So it is crucial to appreciate this interest to truly taste the beauty of the integration of sentiment and scenery. 3. Influence of literators'thought on the design classic gardens (1) Conception and Layout Through the construction of classic gardens, people were trying to express their own sentiment and meanings. According to specific time and space, real scenery was transformed into conceptual aritistic form. In this phase, lliterators'thought generated subtle influence. In order to enrich the aesthetic sense of space, creators implemented all kinds of ways like organizing space, creating space and enhancing effect of space. E.g. On Scenery, Comparing with Scenery, Separating Scenery and Insulating Scenery,etc.. (2) Penetration and Extension Chinese designers implemented ways of contrast, setting of, scale, layers, comparing with scenery and on scenery, to transform layout into time process with complicated and polytropic composition, making it possible to realize space extension and penetration through extension of visiting time. meanwhile,those designers carried out some garden language like Extremely Close Mountains and Forests and Idyllic, reproducing natural scenery and cultural image, creating a new level featuring extensive connotation of gardens'space and special aesthetic feeling for the visitors. (3) False and True Untouchable and concrete, vacancy and solidity, are all the causes of classic gardens fluent, flexible and polytropic sceneries. These are inseparable parts of Chinese gardens'connotation, flection and lasing appeal. Literators were successfully in breaking through the limitations of natural assets to create an infinite space of false and true with mixed vacancy and solidity, changing direct view into changeable aesthetic feeling of garden lying in garden. (4) Connotation Mr. Chen Congzhou ever said, the most interesting part of Chinese classic gardens lies in every hill and stone featuring what is called connotation. The ways of design were always trying to realize an artistic conception of Concealing and Reflecting. Connotation is the result of argument unification, creators successfully hide profound artistic conception, cultural thinking and interest of freedom in concrete sceneries through expressing sentiment in sceneries and making best use of classic gardens image, which is called as the more hidings found the more profound meanings and sentiment found. (5) The influence on classic gardens by literators pursuing aesthetic feelings The aesthetic feeling of the works of Chinese classic gardens is of course the result of Chinese literators'thought. The influence was carried out in a way of penetration into the styles and sceneries of gardens featuring literatos'...
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