"Dream Of Red Mansions" Daguanyuan Visual Image Exploration

The development of gardens is inseparable from a certain economic conditions,political atmosphere,culture and art.The Dream of Red Mansions appeared in the period of Qianlong with flourishing economy,politics and culture.During the period,both royal gardens and private gardens were quite mature.The Grand View Garden in The Dream of Red Mansions is a "paper garden" integrated with literature and garden art.Many buildings in the garden are combined with mountains,waters and plants to create a magnificent and original landscape in literary works.Although the Grand View Garden is a "paper garden",all the information reflected by the text shows that it meets the basic requirements of the construction of gardens.Therefore,shaping the visual image through the description of words is a kind of visual imagination aroused by the description of text language in fact,which depends more on the visual experience of readers.Through the mutual aesthetic analogy among the text,garden images,paintings and dramas of The Dream of Red Mansions,it is illustrated that the shaping of visual images can be accomplished through memory,emotion,intuition,perception and other elements,and then the cultural connotation and certain specific emotions hidden behind the visual images of the Grand View Garden are explored.Under the background of experiencing the "image age",it is based on the interpretation and understanding of the novel text of The Dream of Red Mansions to illustrate that there are an interrelated and mutually interpretative relationship between literature and images.In addition,the visual image of Grand View Garden is created by the mutual evidence of visual media(painting,garden and TV drama).In this way,the image of visual media and the image of paper gardens in Grand View Garden are no longer separated from the cracks between reality and imagination.It will reach the same goal by different routes eventually.