39 Facts About Chinese garden

Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years.

Typical Chinese garden is enclosed by walls and includes one or more ponds, rock works, trees and flowers, and an assortment of halls and pavilions within the garden, connected by winding paths and zig-zag galleries.

You was a royal Chinese garden where birds and animals were kept, while pu was a Chinese garden for plants.

The old character for yuan is a small picture of a Chinese garden; it is enclosed in a square which can represent a wall, and has symbols which can represent the plan of a structure, a small square which can represent a pond, and a symbol for a plantation or a pomegranate tree.

An ancient Chinese legend played an important part in early garden design.

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Chinese garden heard the legend of the islands and sent emissaries to find the islands and bring back the elixir of immortal life, without success.

Chinese garden invited thirty famous poets to a banquet in his garden, and wrote about the event himself:.

Chinese garden brought together a group of famous poets, and seated them beside the stream.

Chinese garden's garden had a meandering stream for floating glasses of wine and pavilions for writing poetry.

Chinese garden used the park for theatrical events; he launched small boats on his stream with animated figures illustrating the history of China.

Chinese garden bought the ruined villa of a poet, located near the mouth of a river and a lake.

Chinese garden wrote a poem for each scene in the garden and commissioned a famous artist, to paint scenes of the garden on the walls of his villa.

The Chinese garden was vast, with over a hundred pavilions and structures, but it was most famous for its collection of exotically shaped rocks and plants, which its creator collected all over China.

Chinese garden's first garden, called The Basin of the Clarity of Gold, was an artificial lake surrounded by terraces and pavilions.

Chinese garden had exotic plants and picturesque rocks brought from around China for his garden, particularly the prized rocks from Lake Tai.

When he returned, he found his Chinese garden completely destroyed, all the pavilions burned and the art works looted.

The Garden of the South was a classic mountain-and-lake Chinese garden; it had a lake with an Island of Immortality, on which were three great boulders from Taihu.

Chinese garden established a new capital on the site of present-day Beijing, called Dadu, the Great Capital.

The Chinese garden is built around a pond, with the Longevity Pavilion on the north side, the Fry Pavilion on the east side, a dramatic rock Chinese garden on the south, and the creator's study, the Humble House, to the west.

Chinese garden was not meant to be seen all at once; the plan of a classical Chinese garden presented the visitor with a series of perfectly composed and framed glimpses of scenery; a view of a pond, or of a rock, or a grove of bamboo, a blossoming tree, or a view of a distant mountain peak or a pagoda.

The largest Chinese garden in Suzhou, the Humble Administrator's Garden, was a little over ten hectares in area, with one fifth of the Chinese garden occupied by the pond.

Classical Chinese garden was surrounded by a wall, usually painted white, which served as a pure backdrop for the flowers and trees.

The other essential elements of a scholar Chinese garden were plants, trees, and rocks, all carefully composed into small perfect landscapes.

The Chinese garden structures are not designed to dominate the landscape, but to be in harmony with it.

The Chinese garden usually has a pond for lotus flowers, with a special pavilion for viewing them.

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Streams in the Chinese garden always follow a winding course, and are hidden from time to time by rocks or vegetation.

The pine, bamboo and Chinese plum were considered the "Three Friends of Winter" by the scholars who created classical gardens, prized for remaining green or blooming in winter.

Creators of the Chinese garden were careful to preserve the natural appearance of the landscape.

The Chinese garden was not meant to be seen all at once, it was laid out to present a series of scenes.

Social and cultural importance of the Chinese garden is illustrated in the classical novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin which unfolds almost exclusively in a Chinese garden.

The scholar's Chinese garden participated in this quest; on the one hand the quest for the home of the Immortals, on the other hand the search for the world of the golden age so dear to the heart of the scholar.

Chinese classical garden had a notable influence on the early Japanese garden.

Chinese garden's reports had a profound influence on the development of Japanese landscape design.

Chinese garden brought green tea from China to Japan, originally to keep monks awake during long meditation, giving the basis for the Japanese tea ceremony, which became an important ritual in Japanese gardens.

Chinese garden described ramparts, balustrades and pavilions surrounding a deep lake full of fish and with swans and other aquatic birds; whose central feature was a manmade hill one hundred steps high and a thousand steps around, covered with evergreen trees and decorated with green azurite stones.

Chinese garden described in great detail what he saw in the imperial gardens near Beijing:.

Chinese garden commissioned the Jesuit priest Father Castiglione, who was trained in engineering, to build fountains for his garden similar to those he had heard about in the gardens at Versailles.

Chinese garden urged western garden designers to use Chinese stylistic conventions such as concealment, asymmetry, and naturalism.

Thanks to Chambers Chinese structures began to appear in other English gardens, then in France and elsewhere on the continent.