Literati Garden Aesthetics Of Space And Time

The literati garden as Chinese classical architectural forms, spaces of everyday life, while an art patterns, but in this essence is a space-time relationship formed by the unity of time and space based on the Chinese space-time continuum. Formed in the context of the traditional Chinese culture, based on the combined effect of Confucianism and Taoism, scholars’view of nature and outlook on life, issued a multi-storey cultural connotations, thus the Scholars’Garden as the space-time continuum, with multiple aesthetic significance. The first layer of meaning is the view of the natural harmony based on classical Chinese philosophy, and the result following the harmony and unity of the "natural law"——the "natural time-space"; second layer of meaning is based on the hermit cultural background Corporal, and the unity of Confucianism and Taoism, generate complex is the ideal personality to settle the self-life--the "principal time-space". If the "natural time-space" is a nature under the influence of human, the "principal time-space"’is a life under the influence of nature. The two parallel processes are people’s aesthetic according to the nature. The third layer of meaning is based on the summary and sublimation of the first two layers of meaning attributed to the highest aesthetic of the literati gardens-literati garden is a place of life back to nature, while life back to original, is also a harmony environment, and is the "aesthetic time-space" generated in the dialectical unity of the outside world and inner mind.