Studies On Farming Culture In Chinese Classical Gardens

Chinese classical garden was born in a feudal society and had the function ofagricultural production in its prototype stage, indicating that there is a certaincorrelation between farming culture and classical gardens. On the one hand theagricultural landscape could provide supplies for people, on the other hand, creatingmood of rural life in the garden could meet the taste of the dweller who want to be ahermit.Such as in the royal gardens the “Western Village” of Gen Yue ImperialGarden and the “Distant Northern Mountain Village” of Yuan-Ming Yuan ImperialGarden have the the nature of agricultural production.“Jian Guan”in Shang-Lin Yuanand “FengZe Yuan” of Xi Yuan are the worship place about agricultural activities,inaddition, in the private garden Wangchuan Villa and the eastern section of HumbleAdministrator’s Garden reflect the meaning of rural life,these are the garden formcontaining the implication of the farming culture. Thus, farming culture permeatethrough the classical gardens.This article intends to analyze farming culture in Chinese classical gardens and toexplore and analyze the performance in gardens. The origins of farming civilization istreated as an opportunity to explain the significance of farming culture for thegarden,and then talk about the image of sericulture as a typical representative of thefarming culture,and analyze its application in the classical gardens. In addition, Thenit will construe the relationship between the farming culture and Taoism andConfucianism and hermit；dissect the impacts of farming culture in the gardens whichare generated by agricultural philosophical concepts of Taoism and agriculturalthoughts of Confucianism；interpretate the infection of pastoral literature to ReclusiveIdea development and changes, from the initial seclusion pastoral to the hidden in thegarden.Analyze the impact of agricultural thoughts to the ancient gardening ideas, andwith the information of the classical gardens’ writings and the existing gardeninstance, it will analyze the performance of farming culture in gardens, and sum upthe principles，while draw on the research methods of semiotics to explore the cultural origins of these common principles，and study the landscaping practices of sameimage theme in different gardens instance, as well as the performance of the farmingculture of different landscape types. Analyze classical garden from different angles,and experience the extraordinary feeling of classical gardens, and expect to providesome meaningful reference for the modern landscape design.