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TUNG DESIGN:Landscape is the romance of the ancients and the source of poetic dwelling. In ancient times, people watched the mountains and rivers to feel the breadth and depth of natural creation; they built bridges and pavilions for themselves to travel and rest in the mountains. Bridges and roads, is the ancient communication medium of the landscape and people; pavilions, is a resting place in the landscape, but also in the turbid world, the spiritual home of the refuge. TUNG DESIGN:British scholar Arnold Toynbee once said, "If I had to choose, I would like to live in the Song Dynasty of China. The feeling and pursuit of beauty in Song Dynasty was from top to bottom. Nowadays, the elegance of Song Dynasty is far away, however, the life style and artistic aesthetics in it have not been extinguished, which is a kind of life attitude of pursuing elegance and quality. The site is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, following the trend. Following the example of Song painting landscape, the landscape is mostly sublime, majestic, quiet and deep. The space is divided into "Jade Screen Pine Wind", "Moonlight in Murmuring Stream", "Smoke and Lan Mountain", "Spring Leads to The five courtyards are divided into the "Jade Screen Pine Wind", "Moonlight in the Murmuring Stream", "Smoky Mountain", "Spring Leads to the Sky" and "West Garden Elegance". Here, the beauty of the gardens and courtyards are the containers of Song-style aesthetics of elegant affairs. "The house is crowned with a portal", with a Song-style shaped gate, a Song-style sloping roof and 81 copper nails on the door, reflecting the minimalist style of Song-style garden architecture. At the entrance, the "Jade Screen Welcoming Pine", which originates from the black pine under Mount Tai, leans against the scenic stone and sticks out diagonally from the left side of the courtyard wall, and the black pine remains ageless and verdant, which is fascinating. 【|】Two Courts | Seeing the moon in a stream Corridor, the veins in the garden, used to create space, divide the scene, step by step, can increase the landscape level, expand the depth of space. Flowing stones in the fog interplay, as if the snow rustling stacked under the moon, falling flowers drifting like flying snow, flowing Ying over the gap like cold stars. The flat bridge and the rainbow bridge are intertwined, and between the two is the Moon Gate, which connects the two bridges, forming a classic borrowing technique. Borrowing the shadow of the stone to get the "stone leaning on the wind and bamboo", bamboo in the back of the cave, the wind moved the shadow. The only thing that remains the same is the "pattern" of pine and stone. The ancient ravine, the cloudy pine, the stream waterfall, the mountain pavilion, and the pedestrians relaxing in them, like a Zen poem, build up a poetic space and create a transcendent mood. For example, a picture of "Ancient Pine", from the roll of cloud and water, the sloping bank, cold forest and flying stream appear in turn, and then a pine forest and a winding mountain path. Following the path backwards, through the cramped valley, the painting suddenly opens up and a cloud of smoke comes into view, followed by the ancient pine standing proudly as the main character, which becomes the climax of the whole volume, and then abruptly stops and turns into the void again, integrating into the hazy smoke and water. The "smoke and arashi" is originally a long prelude to the final "ancient pine". out of the mountains The hole moon gate, the courtyard, will be this lake and mountain, mountain and water wonders half hidden outline the invisible poetic feelings. The mountains are green and foggy, and the grass and trees know that spring has come to earth, and all things resonate with the emerald green. The source of the pine forest is a quiet place in the midst of the disturbance. This "ancient" is not a time dimension, but a kind of ancient meaning, a meditative realm, swimming with the ancients, creating a cave with no connection to the earthly world. It is taken from the "Song of the Children" in "Mengzi - Li Lou": "The water of Canglang is clear enough to wash my tassel; the water of Canglang is muddy enough to wash my feet. Perched in the clouds, living in the high mountains, overlooking the entire Canglang Pond, the beauty is in full view. Here the Qiongtai night moon, standing in the garden of the highest viewpoint open up a suspended square platform, the four sides of the garden scene in full view, quite a glimpse of the mountains. 【|】Four Courts | Spring Leads to the Heavenly Realm There is a "special cave" scene here: the ancient black pine surrounds the boulder, and under the boulder is a disc engraved with twenty-eight stars, and the moonlight spills through the patio, as if heaven and earth are one. Looking up at the sky, the sky is round and the place is round. The hollow design, with moonlight spilling down, echoes the fish playing among the lotus flowers on the ground. Between reality and reality, it forms the scene of "water and moon in the cave of heaven".