Analysis of the View of Time and Space in Chinese Classical Gardens

Abstract

Classical garden is an important carrier to embody the view of time and space in ancient China, and the attention of ancient gardeners to the view of time and space undoubtedly affects the concept of space-time construction of Chinese classical garden and makes the static garden create the change of time and space. Based on the literature and existing cases, the author discusses the view of time in Chinese classical gardens from the aspects of mythology, movement, seasonal phase and image contained in gardens, and demonstrates the spatial view of classical gardens from the aspects of heaven and earth, virtual reality, landscape and legal principle, and then expounds the unity of time and space in classical gardens in accordance with echo, circulation, parallelism and so on, so as to provide reference for the construction of space-time artistic conception of modern gardens.