The Research On Song Dynasty’s Private Garden Prose

Chinese classical garden becomes mature in the Song Dynasty, as thespiritual home for literati, private garden develops into a representative form of SongDynasty’s private garden. The prosperity of Song Dynasty’s private garden encourages SongDynasty’s private garden prose, this prose contains not only the architectural pattern of privategarden, the garden activities of literati, but also the spiritual and philosophical components ofChinese culture. The Song Dynasty’s private garden prose is a representative species of SongDynasty’s prose, as it chimes with a trend in Song Dynasty’s prose to represent the peak ofChinese ancient garden prose. As an important part of Song Dynasty’s prose, the SongDynasty’s private garden prose reflects its characteristics, which is the starting point to therelationship between garden and literature, the breakthrough in garden prose and the sampleof literati’s life.According to the discussion about “prose” and private garden, this paper presents the definition of private garden prose, on this basis, the author selects88articles which have a salientfeature of garden interests, combs the main historical stages of private gardens and reasons toprosperity in the Song Dynasty. By analyzing the development of prose and private garden, this paper proposes a new definition of Song Dynasty’s private garden prose, defines the scope,teases its causes and trends. On the basis of present research, the author studys Song Dynasty’s private garden prose from the perspective of prose, focuses on subject matter, central thesisand stylistic features creatively. The Song Dynasty’s private garden prose on the theme content mainly involves the description of garden history and textual research, landscape is introduced, in the description of the concrete process of following standard narrative grammar structure and formed "to Fu syntax feature article" as the representative of private gardens, forming awrite prose writing, the Song Dynasty scholar’s garden fun, spirit of self-examination and political attitudes, highlighting the song literati’s personality spirit.