Author(s)

Jialin Ni ¹, Zihui Qu ¹, Shuxin Zhang ¹, Qingyang Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Design, Art and Architecture, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, China

Corresponding Author

Qingyang Chen

ABSTRACT

During the Southern Song Dynasty, as a stage of cultural prosperity and high development of garden art in Chinese history, many exquisite private gardens emerged. Among them, "True Hidden Garden" and its core landscape "Siming Dongtian" are famous for their unique landscape layout, profound cultural deposits and recluse ideas, which have become precious samples for later generations to study Song Dynasty garden art. However, with the change of history, the true Yin Garden and its "Siming Cave sky" have no longer been the original appearance, leaving only documentary records and scattered relics, which attract unlimited imagination. This paper aims to carry out a scientific and reasonable restoration design of "Siming Dongtian" through in-depth research on the historical background, cultural characteristics, garden design concepts and relevant documents and materials of "True Hidden Garden" in the Southern Song Dynasty, combined with modern archaeological discoveries and garden restoration techniques, in order to reproduce its former glory and provide a new perspective and inspiration for contemporary garden art, historical and cultural research and tourism development. In the process of restoration design, the aesthetic orientation, spatial layout, plant configuration and architectural characteristics of the gardens in the Southern Song Dynasty were analyzed in detail to build a restoration framework that conforms to the historical landscape. In the design, attention is paid to the interlocking and tortuous spatial layout of mountains and rivers, and modern gardening technology is used to simulate natural mountains and rivers, creating the artistic conception of ink painting. At the same time, the restoration design emphasizes the in-depth excavation and display of cultural connotation. By restoring the cultural elements such as pavilions, stone inscription forests, poetry couplets and other cultural elements in the "Siming Cave Sky", it not only restores its material form, but also inherits its spiritual connotation, so that tourists can feel the secluded feelings and elegant taste of the intellectuals of the Southern Song Dynasty during the tour.

KEYWORDS

True Yin Garden of Southern Song Dynasty; Siming Dongtian; Landscape design

CITE THIS PAPER

Jialin Ni, Zihui Qu, Shuxin Zhang, Qingyang Chen, Restoration Design of "Siming Cave Day" in Zhenyin Garden of Southern Song Dynasty. Landscape and Urban Horticulture (2024) Vol. 6: 111-121. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/lsuh.2024.060116.

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