Private Garden Rockery Study

The private park rockery is the representative of the essence of China classical garden culture. This thesis researches the rockery from two aspects. Through deeply discussing the origin of rockery which is the main subject related to classical park by analyzing images, on the basis of archeological materials and art history materials in combination of the past park history research, this thesis concludes:1. The motive of building rockery is originated from China classical culture.2. The earth hill stemming from the Qin and Han Dynasties, until the Northern Song Dynasty, has always been the main shape of park rockery building. Stone laying is adopted as the method to protect the slope of earth hill.3. The appreciation and collection of Taihu stones is the basic factor expediting the stone rockery. Setting Taihu stones as the method of making the park has become prevailing from Southern Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties time at least. Folding stone to become a view is likely the result impacted by the pot gardening at the earliest stage, while the mountain stone pot gardening can also be traced back to South and North Dynasty time at the earliest stage.4. The fusion of the folded stone and the Taihu stone appreciation caused the real presence of the rockery representing China garden feature, the time of which is about in the last years of North Sung.In the following chapters, this thesis tries to systematically analyze the present garden rockery cases with the method of shape study, expecting to define the information contained in the rockery cases, including times, areas and style from the aspects of folding technique, shape disposal and stone materials, in order to provide the necessary reference to the research, repair and maintain of the rockery. This study is non-technical, less related to the project operation of the rockery.