The Consciousness Of Garden And Landscape In Wangwei’s Wangchuan Collection

The life and experience of Wangwei are full of natural breath which decorates with sincerity and interest and his idyllic poems contain the feature of garden landscape aesthetics that the images are rich and the artistic conception are profound, especially Wangchuan Collection which is collaborated with his friends. This poetry was made in his middle age when he secluded in Wangchuan and elaborately described the beauty of garden landscape aesthetics in Wangchuan. Besides “the Garden of Wangchuan” which he rebuilds happens to be locate in Lantian county, Shanxi Province. The place can fully explain his building ideas and natural scene and human landscape in the garden and the place’s style closely relates to idyllic poems. As to the viewpoint, the thesis will illustrate the proper discussion and explanation.According to the history of garden building and garden culture, readers can understand the beauty of garden from poems, which is the common method to design beauty. Of course, poems are also based on gardens. Wangwei was a idyllic poet in Tang dynasty and knew much about early literati garden, then can skillfully combine poems, pictures and gardens. The traditional gardens, called literati gardens, not only include poems and pictures but also merge philosophical and religious thoughts like Confucianism and Taoist thoughts, which equate to solidified poems and three-dimensional pictures. Therefore, poems which contain the poetic beauty and philosophy of classical gardens, stimulate the building of gardens and development of garden culture.This thesis aims at exploring building ideas, nature and human conception in Wangwei’s Wangchuan Collection and analyzes landscape aesthetic feature in the poetry. Compared with picturesque aesthetics and poetic aesthetics, this feature shows the characteristic of naivete, vitality and intangibility.These questions in the thesis can offer a new viewpoint to interpret and appreciate Wangwei’s idyllic poems comprehensively and promote us to master the relationship among poems, gardens and aesthetics and enhance connectivity of different excellent traditional culture. Besides, these questions are also enlightening for modern people’s environmental and ecological construction.