英文摘要 |
The development of Chinese gardens has reached a climax in the Sung Dynasty, so that an enormous number of gardens were built in that prosperous period. However, after that the glory has gradually dimmed, eventually turning into ashes in the historical course. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty a remarkable number of forsaken gardens could be seen in relics. In the works of the Ming Dynasty’s literary men, they more often than not used imagery of a forsaken garden as a motif to depict the ever-changing, transient, sad aspects of human lives. Actually, in terms of psychology, this kind of sadness can be seen as a root of anxiety of which the so-called defensive escape could lead to psychological illnesses. The writers of the Ming Dynasty, nonetheless, could brace themselves for the nostalgic sadness, opening themselves to the ever-lasting sadness. They picked up some transcendental natures in their creative works of the forsaken gardens. These findings could serve to heal the hallucinatory sadness. This thesis can be divided into five main parts: 1. Introduction. According to the philosophy of historical development, the author explains the inevitable nature of how Chinese gardens were largely ruined in the Ming Dynasty. 2. The author shows how the literati of the Ming Dynasty used an enormous amount of Chinese garden materials to illustrate the hallucinatory sadness, and the author also analyze the two main reasons causing the decline of Chinese gardens. 3. The author explains how literary men in that period made most of the transcendental nature of the pictures of the Chinese gardens to heal the hallucinatory sadness. 4. The author points out how writers in the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the transcendental nature of the writings of the Chinese gardens to heal the hallucinatory nostalgic sadness. 5. In the sequence of Chinese gardens, pictures, pomes and writings combined, and preface, the author analyze how the relations of “pictures/gardens,” “poems/gardener” operated to produce a healing effect in an attempt to illustrate how a series of garden-related creative works covered the respective wishes of hosts towards the gardens as well as his personal permanent soul. |