Some of my reading notes

Chang’an during the heyday of Kaiyuan, the Tang Dynasty

Recently, I have been reading “the history of Chinese garden culture”. I’d like to share a piece of my reading notes with you and the beauty of gardening culture in ancient China.

The smallest garden: Li Garden, Suzhou, China

The smallest garden: Li Garden, Suzhou, China

“In the heyday of Kaiyuan, Li Bai used beautiful and gorgeous words to describe Yang Guifei’s beautiful appearance in Qing Ping Diao. It seems that we can see the scene of wealth and wealth in Chang’an at that time. In this regard, I cannot agree more with the restoration of Tang Dynasty in the film “Legend of demon cat”. After the Anshi rebellion, the Tang Dynasty declined rapidly. We can feel that In the poems of Bai Juyi, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, there appeared such sentences as “illusory world is like a bubble, floating life reaches the eye”. After the war and the collapse of the country, the Tang people could no longer conceive the magnificent and beautiful garden works like Daming Palace and Huaqing Palace. They turned to appreciate the quiet garden space. Although the source of this appreciation began in the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, in the middle Tang Dynasty, the number of literati was on the rise, and people devoted themselves to the exploration of quiet garden space with unprecedented enthusiasm. In the Song Dynasty, the accelerated transformation of traditional society, the pattern of attaching importance to Literature and ignoring martial arts, and the emergence of Huizong, a cultural genius, all contributed to the achievements of no comer in the garden of the Song Dynasty. Especially the appearance of the Song Dynasty’s Neo Confucianism. Whether Zhou Dunyi’s disdain for peony and his appreciation for the purity of lotus, Zhang Zai’s theory of “Yin and Yang coexisting”, or Lu Jiuyuan’s “mind is reason” all indicate the scholars’ bias towards Taoism in Song Dynasty. The concern for hermits in Taoist thought and Shen Kuo’s interest in subtle things in Meng Xi Bi Tan are naturally closely related to “heaven and earth in pot”. The garden in downtown is only the size of a mustard. How to make the square inch of heaven and earth exquisite has become the ideological source of the spatial law of “pot in heaven and earth” in Song Dynasty.”