Tang Pavilion's Cultural Perspective

As an invaluable record of the poems and prose of the Tang Dynasty, the Whole Tang Poetry and the Whole Tang Prose serve as an important historical data for academic study. The author has selected a large number of prose and poems on pavilions of the Tang Dynasty from them and strives to do research on this subject. The purpose of the research is to reconstruct the images of pavilions of the Tang Dynasty and explore the close relationship between pavilions and intellectuals of the Tang Dynasty. Pavilions rose in the Tang Dynasty with the prosperity of gardens and in the Tang Dynasty, there was no garden without pavilions. The significance of the thesis is the combination of literature and architecture and the focus on pavilions, which is different from the previous style research.There are five parts in the thesis,including introduction,image,beauty,life,and appendixe.Through the analysis of the prose and poems, the author in the thesis strives to reproduce the shape, material and color of pavilions in the Tang Dynasty and categories pavilions of the Tang Dynasty into garden pavilions, scenery pavilions and postal station pavilions in order to explore the varied applications of pavilions and the relationship between pavilions and the people in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, the positions of the pavilions and various plant configurations around them create different atmosphere of the environment. The modeling "like a flying bird" of pavilions achieves the beauty of "form conveying meaning"; the emotional experience aroused when looking into the distance from pavilions and the incisive philosophical ponder on the emptiness of pavilions make the beauty of pavilions more complete and profound. The daily life of scholars and intellectuals of the Tang Dynasty revolved around pavilions. They visited pavilions for pleasure, bid farewell to friends or constructed new pavilions to enjoy the endless happiness in life. At the end of the thesis are two appendixes. One is the record of pavilions of the Tang Dynasty, clarifying the pavilions all over China in Charts. The other is an individual case, the Qu Jiang Pavilion.