The Arts Of Classical Garden In Dream Of The Red Chamber

By discussing and analyzing the element,form and characteristic of the classical garden in Dream of the Red Chamber,this article let us know the arts of building classical garden in Dream of the Red Chamber and Caoxueqin's idea of building garden more deeply. From this article, we can also learn the building idea of the literary and artistic garden and connotation of the culture.Our country is a famous civilized old country. She holds a long history which lasts for thousands of years and brilliant culture. On Chinese culture history, Chinese people not only created a lot of Chinese characteristic gardens which reflects Chinese people's wisdom and sentiment but also created many literary gardens with abundant imagination and literary charm on people's hearts. Though they are not really gardens, they absorb building experience from earthy gardens sand contain creators' aesthetic ideal. These gardens both have important stations on Chinese literature history and garden history. Because creation needs imagination, gardens also needs plenty of imagination. They need people to be built by heart.The classical gardens in Dream of the Red Chamber are created by author Caoxueqin. Cao is a poet, litterateur, drawer and garden builder. He created gardens on paper and showed us a aristocratic garden during earlier Qing Dynasty when the Chinese garden arts were at the height of power and splendour once more. The composition of the garden is apotheosis in Chinese classical garden. The description of Grand View Garden in Dream of the Red Chamber now has been the textbook in the garden building education. Among the famous authors of the classical novels, Cao is the first one to describe gardens so roundly, integrally, accurately that we can build a really garden based on his description.The classical gardens in Dream of the Red Chamber are similar like Wushilin's garden on paper such as wushi garden, wuyou garden, heart garden, yi garden. They are culture gardens and artistic gardens. They are built by author's heart, inspirit and dream. They won't ruin as sui garden and they also won't be destroyed as Garden of Perfection and brightness in the war. The value of them is eternal and it also can't be scaled by money. The classical gardens in Dream of the Red Chamber have more eternal value than the real gardens. These gardens not only contain a lot of Chinese classical garden's distillate, but also include Chinese people's particular understanding and hankering of the living environment and connection between human and nature. These gardens are not only the living space of people of jia's family, but also are author's perfect and admissive living space. So understanding of the artistic idea and cultural connotation is one of the antecedent terms to understand the Dream of the Red Chamber. It also helps us to discover the law hidden in the traditional garden building ways.