The ancient building of the garden has always been known to the micro, the mountains and rocks are staggered, and the curved cloister is seen outside the pavilion. Poetic and palpable. Today we explain to you the garden of the - the boat.
Boat is also a boat, generally refers to the relative construction of exquisite boats, such as the cruise ship for the purpose of tour is called a painting ship or a boat, its interior decoration is particularly exquisite, like the building on the ground, sometimes its exterior also has exquisite decoration.
Whether it is a painting boat, a swimming boat, it is a walking boat, but the boat in the garden mainly introduced today is a boat that cannot be walked, it is called a dry boat boat, but it is just an architectural landscape in the garden, which is a kind of building built according to the shape of the boat At the same time, it is also like other garden buildings, which can be viewed.
A boat in the garden
In the classical garden architecture of Suzhou, "Fang" is a special garden form closely related to water, also known as "dry boat", "stone ship", "not tied to the boat", etc., which is a kind of architectural form that is adjacent to water or imitation of water and water.
The ship resembles a boat and is usually located at the water's edge, or on the flower bank, with a flat bridge on the near shore side connecting to the shore. Because of its lightness against the water, it is known as "the most romantic building in garden architecture".
The origin of the ship
The Erya Shiyan explains: "Fang, Zhouye"; in the Guangya Shishui, there is: "Fang, Boat also".
Ship-like architecture is a type of architecture that is gradually abstracted and evolved by water vehicles such as boats, boats, and painting boats. From canoes and boats in the pre-Qin period, building boats and painting boats in the Qin and Han dynasties, dragon boats and sand boats in the Sui and Tang dynasties, two Song dynasty car boats and boats, And Ming and Qing Zheng and treasure ships and Fu boats, from these different tools, extract their shapes, structures, and elements, from realism to freehand, from figuration to abstraction and symbolization, which is a transformation process from concept to form.
The function of the boat is also changing, from being a necessary tool for survival and war, gradually evolving into a water stage, a boat for sacrifice and entertainment, to the reproduction of water life, for organizing water rowing and game activities, and finally into a garden building that imitates travel - dry boat.
The first record of the building of the ship is found in the Northern Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's "Record of Painting The Ship", which says: "Whoever enters the remaining room is like entering a boat... Mountain stone cockroach, beautiful flowers and beautiful eyes, outside the eaves of the jade gate, it seems to be in the middle, and the left and right forests are cute, so they are named after boats. Later, the Southern Song Dynasty's elaborate "Miscellaneous Knowledge of Decay", which recorded that there was a "dry ship 'returning' in the Jifang Garden of Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou)".
Classification of ships
According to the similarity of the shape of the ship building to the painting ship and the building ship, the ship type of building can be divided into two types of realism and freehand construction.
The realistic type imitates the real ship, pursues a high degree of similarity in shape, and even builds the ship completely in the water, which is considered to be "similar to the shape of the painting, seen in the children's neighbor".
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Freehand is divided into two types: realistic freehand and abstract freehand.
Realistic and freehand refers to the imitation of architectural painting boats and building ships, and the shape is between similar and non-similar. There is a realistic component, between the boat and the pool shore with a stone slab imitation springboard meaning, the hull is divided into three sections, the higher peak of the building roof form symbolizes the front cabin, can enjoy the view, the middle of the lower building as the middle cabin, can be entertained, the tail cabin is mostly a pavilion, can ascend to the far garden outside the scene.
Abstract freehand refers to the fact that it is difficult to see the image of the ship's ship from the shape of the building, and generally stimulates the imagination through the setting off and hinting of the environment. Through plaques, links, etc., to be associative and imaginative, so that people have a kind of artistic beauty of being in the painting boat and the ripples of the water, or through the treatment of internal details, the ordinary window is changed to a branch window, like a ship's side, so that people have a connection with the cabin.
Retreat Garden is a red boat
The building is divided into two parts, the front cabin is a north-south building on the top of the hanging hill, the middle cabin is slightly lower than the front cabin, the roof shape is similar, in the east-west direction, the building is connected with the corridor, and the tail cabin seems to be hidden behind the veranda, creating a kind of dynamic parade of the boat, just like a painting boat that is sailing into the pool.
Suzhou since ancient times has been known as "water town Zeguo", water is the soul of Suzhou, water culture is reflected in all aspects, in the "no water no garden" of Suzhou classical garden, boat to the boat this characteristic means of transport as the image, often placed on the waterside, play a point view, viewing, tea room, dock, imitation tour and other functions, but also so that the owner can experience the fun of the boat feast, increase the humanistic taste at the same time to material mingzhi, express feelings.