The Yellow Stone Wall Rockery in Ji Cheng's Garden Which under the Influence of the"North and South School"Theory
Combing textual and visual historical materials in combination with social aesthetic background,the paper analyzes a sentence in Yuanye(The Art of Garden Making)to explicate the guidelines for"The Yellow Stone Wall Rockery"by analyzing the aesthetic trend,gardening materials,and design skills to highlight its characteristics.It pinpoints the maturity and popularity of the yellow stone wall rockery objectively,and people's penchant for yellow stones subjectively caused garden designers of the time as typified in Ji Cheng to make use of the name of Huang Gongwang to avoid conflicts as the result of appraising South while depreciating North at the time.
late Ming dynastyJiangnan gardenJi ChengYuanye(The Art of Garden Making)Huang Gongwangthe yellow stone wall rockerytraditional Chinese Shanshui Painting