英文摘要 |
This article discusses a feature in the landscape writing of Yuan Jie and Liu Zongyuan, being fond of human landscape world in a small space, and generalize it as the shift of Chinese landscape aesthetic discourse in mid-Tang . In accord with this shift, “quan-shi” (spring-rock) has replaced “mount-water” to become the major interesting object for landscape enjoyment and to make motives for literati to live among springs and rocks to realize their way home to the mind-heart. The spring and rock in this regard have been included into the literati existence. Thearticle contends that the above phenomena was the ignored historical context behind the rise of the so-called “literati garden” and the special significance of the cases of Yuan and Liu for the research on the discourse of ancient Chinese landscape aesthetics. Liu's uneasiness with the vast,wild and unfamiliar landscape could be particularly defined as an anti-sublime tendency which, combined with the Confucian concept of humanizing the nature, aroused his interest in remodeling the natural landscape and building garden. The third section of this article is concentrated on Liu's theory about layout of the garden, arguing that Liu's writing not only demonstrates the track of how traditional Chinese landscaping ideas developed from the natural mount-water to the garden, but also initially propounds the aesthetic principles for gardening which had a deep impact on the layout of Chinese gardens of later generations. |