Research On The Gardening Of Zuoyin Garden And Its Surroundings Based On Scenes Of The Huan Cui Tang Garden

The woodblock print Scenes of the Huan Cui Tang Garden depicts the scenery of Zuoyin Garden and its surroundings in its 14 meter-long frame.On the basis of this,this paper focus on the research on the gardening of Zuoyin Garden and its surroundings in Xiuning County in Ming Dynasty.The whole research consists of three parts.The first part is research on the background of Zuoyin Garden including its historical background and its geographical conditions.The second part is spatial reconstruction of Zuoyin Garden and its surroundings based on Scenes of the Huan Cui Tang Garden and relevant historical literature as well as investigation on its geographical conditions.The third part is the analysis of gardening theory and techniques of Zuoyin Garden and its surroundings.The research has following results:1.Zuoyin Garden was built in the northern part of Wangcun in Xiuning County in Ming Wanli Twenty-eight years(AD 1600).It had excellent geographical conditions,which was surrounded by mountains.2.Scenes of the Huan Cui Tang Garden depicts the scenery of Zuoyin Garden and its surroundings in detail.The location relationship among view spots is quite clear.The image of this woodblock print can be reconstructed based on the text annotations and relevant historical literature like The story of Master Zuoyin’s Huancui Tang Garden.3.Zuoyin Garden consisted of two parts.The southern part was the mansion part,which had distinctive features of houses in Huizhou.The northern part was the garden part,which revolved around Fenhe Pond and made use of surrounding red sandstone hills.4.Changgong Lake was the central view spot in the surroundings of Zuoyin Garden.The lake and surrounding geographical conditions have been kept in quite good condition.Zuoyin Garden had close relationship with its surroundings in terms of views arrangement,routes organization and visual relationship.5.The gardening of Zuoyin Garden had distinctive features of gardening in middle Ming Dynasty,especially in terms of pilling hills and waterscape design,landscape of architecture and planting,which was different from gardening in late Ming Dynasty which had experienced profound changes in gardening theory and techniques.