Digging Canals and Straining Streams:A Topographical Reading of Water Management Techniques in Yuan Ye(the Craft of Gardens)
This paper focuses on lishui(water management),an important technique in Chinese garden-making.First,it uses multiple editions of"Yuan Ye(the Craft of Gardens)"to revise the text,and obtains the original text that the author Ji Cheng intends to express and the 20th-century researchers'understanding represented by the scholar Cao Xun;secondly,from the view of topography it analyzes the relevant expositions in Yuan Ye(the Craft of Gardens),combined with several garden cases from the Western Han Dynasty to the present,to explain the following concepts:What is"digging canals"?What is"straining streams"?What is"ancient method"?What is"deep meaning"?Finally,from the perspective of topography,this paper analyzes the water management techniques and aesthetic changes reflected in this divergence,and thus questions today's maintenance of classical gardens'waterscape.
Chinese Gardenswater managementYuan Ye(the Craft of Gardens)topography
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