What are the characteristics of Lingnan gardens?

Features of Lingnan gardens:

1. There are roughly four types of Lingnan courtyard layouts:

Building around the courtyard; front courtyard and backyard; study side courtyard; front house Back courtyard.

2. Garden site selection:

The most important thing in the construction of Lingnan gardens is site selection, and site selection can best express the aesthetic orientation and life interest of the gardener. The site selection principle of Suzhou gardens is:

Place gardens deep in alleys, and mix gardens among residential houses, that is, seek a secluded place in a busy city, and create an urban forest through artistic conception and artificial means. realm.

The principle of building gardens in Lingnan is to stay away from the busy city as much as possible, and build garden residences in the natural environment of real mountains and rivers, and even integrate the garden into nature and become a part of it. The builders admired nature and pursued simplicity. They paid little attention to artificial hills and flowing water, and did not envy the ingenuity of Jiangnan gardens that created mountains and forests within easy reach.

The four famous gardens in central Guangdong that have been preserved to this day, Qinghui Garden and Liang Garden were built on the edge of the town, while Keyuan and Yuyin Shanfang were built in the countryside to obtain good environmental conditions.

Extended information:

Garden culture:

In Chinese gardens, Lingnan gardens have always been independent. Lingnan gardens have relatively distinctive characteristics:

1. Light, transparent, simple and small in size.

2. The decoration is exquisite and gorgeous, with extensive use of wood carvings, brick carvings, ceramics, gray sculptures and other folk crafts, door and window panes, flower covers and leaky windows, etc. are all carefully carved. The third is the layout form and local components. Influenced by Western architectural culture, it reflects the characteristics of Lingnan culture that is compatible with both China and the West.

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