Tang Qujiang Garden 's Cultural Activities

In Chinese history, Qujiang is a landscape architecture with a long standing reputation, especially in Tang dynasty. All along the academic circle have done a lot of studies on Qujiang from different angles. But they often placed their emphases on one specific perspective. This paper will sort out the cultural activities of Qujiang landscape architecture in Tang dynasty, It mainly includes five following aspects.The first part is introduction. This part mainly introduces the background and significance of the research and reviews the present stage of related studies briefly.The second part is a general explanation on cultural activities of Qujiang landscape architecture, including the origin and interesting places of Qujiang, the development and the scale of these historic sites in Tang dynasty.The third part mainly analyzes types of cultural activities of Qujiang landscape architecture. For example, the emperor of Tang dynasty arrived at Tang Paradise, went upstairs of ZiYun tower and enjoyed the grand view that all the officials and people shared pleasure together; all the officials were bestowed banquets by the emperor in Qujiang Pavilion with music,dancing and thousands of acrobatics as entertainment; what happened on scholars who had passed the imperial examination : they enjoyed the banquet given by the emperor in XingYuan, gave their autograph as a memento at The Wild Goose Pagoda, drank and sang by Qujiang river; the average people went sightseeing in festivals, enjoyed entertainments and the life.The fourth part is the description of cultural activities of Qujiang landscape architecture in documents of Tang dynasty. Either official history and local history or poems and articles of Tang dynasty have a lot of records about cultural activities of Qujiang landscape architecture.The fifth part is the conclusion. In this part, the author proposes the results and limitations of the research.