中国文化英语教程U17 PPT

A Sense of Space
In the Summer Palace in Beijing, there is a pavilion named “Touring Through a Painting”, which does not mean that the pavilion itself is a painting, but that the scene outside the pavilion is like a painting. Therefore, once you enter the pavilion, you enter the bigger painting.
A Winding Path to Places of Interest
Fascinating Stones
• Rock formations play an important role in the construction of a Chinese-style garden. Without them, a garden could not be considered an authentic Chinese-style garden. • Rock formations are as important to a Chinesestyle garden as sculptures are to a Europeanstyle garden, and may signify even more.
Introduction
• The private gardens south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River boast a unique ambience of their own. • Scattered through Suzhou, Yangzhou and other places, the private gardens are mostly legacies from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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Fascinating Stones
A rock formation
Fascinating Stones
• Guanyun Peak, in Liuyuan Garden in Suzhou, is actually a formation of stones from Taihu Lake. • Between the reality and the reflection, the garden presents a fascinating, picturesque composition.
Unit 17
Gardens South of the Yangtze River
Content
Lead-in
Text study
Exercises
Lead-in
Enjoy the pictures of the two famous Chinese gardens and tell their difference in style.
A Sense of Space
A Sense of Space
The idea of “borrowing a distant view” is actually applied not only to windows, but also to all the elements of the garden, such as houses, pavilions and pagodas (宝塔).
The Summer Palace:
Lead-in
Zhuozheng garden:
Text study
2.1 Introduction 2.2 A Winding Path to Places of Interest 2.3 Fascinating Stones 2.4 A Sense of Space
A Winding Path to Places of Interest
The Chinese attach great importance to the qualities of being reserved and subtle, and the construction of gardens dotting the hazy (雾蒙蒙的) landscape south of the lower Yangtze River well reflects this philosophy. The pavilions and buildings enshrouded (笼罩) in the misty moonlight produce an irresistible appeal.
Joyous Longevity Hall
A Sense of Space
• In fact, garden designers bestow these windows with another name—“absorbent windows”, through which the sights of different places interact, thus setting the landscape of the garden in motion. • More interestingly, through the windows, visitors may see different views at different angles, and thus the composition of the garden becomes infinitely enlarged.
Fascinating Stones
• Four features of Taihu Lake stones: thinness, porosity (多 孔), exquisiteness, and wrinkles.
• These features of Taihu Lake stones describe not only beauty in form but even more, reflect people’s lofty ideals toward life.
A Winding Path to Places of Interest
What most frequently meets the eye are winding paths that seemingly lead to nowhere, as it would appear to new visitors. There, a path seems to end, but all of a sudden, a new world is rolled out before you: pavilions, rock formations, spring water—all combining to provide a pleasant surprise!
Fascinating Stones
• Thinness represents unearthliness and aloofness. • Porosity signifies openness and flexibility. • Exquisiteness describes the characteristics of being fine and delicate in texture. • Wrinkles are the curving forms and ripple-like lines nurtured by water.
A Sense of Space
Pavilions are an integrated part of Chinese gardens. Their function is to divert visitors’ attention from a view in a limited space toward a view out into an infinite space. Standing in a pavilion, a visitor can look far into the distance to enjoy the beautiful sights of the world.
A Winding Path to Places of Interest
• Private gardens south of the Yangtze River are a world of curving lines.
• Zhuozheng Garden in Suzhou: 1. Corridors zigzag along a stream. 2. The upturned corners of the roofs are like flying birds with their wings widespread. 3. Even the trees are curving.
Introduction
• Chinese garden has a history of more than 2,000 years. • Three styles: the imperial garden, the temple garden and the private garden. • The most famous imperial garden extant today is the Summer Palace in Beijing.
A Sense of Space
• Gardens in the south are mostly small in size. To evoke a sense of space, the use of “borrowing a distant view” is of special significance. • It enables a visitor to look outside the garden to enjoy a new and greater vista (远景), and to acquire a feeling of spaciousness, despite being in a physically small space.
A Sense of Space
• Joyous Longevity Hall, in the Summer Palace in Beijing, has windows on all its four walls, with its surrounding walls facing Kunming Lake. Each window view becomes the equivalent of a vivid painting.
A Winding Path to Places of Interest
A Winding Path to Places of Interest
• At the entrance to a Chinese garden there is usually a huge stone or wall to screen your view. This is to give you a pressed-in feeling, so as to later produce unforeseen delight when you turn around the hall to see the exotic rock formations, and an extensive lake of limpid (清澈的) rippling water right in front of you.
A Sense of Space
Windows are very important in this aspect. In Chinese horticulture (园艺), windows are always designed in the shape of a fan and referred to as “convenience windows”.