Post by NZBC on Apr 27, 2008 12:32:26 GMT 12
Our Garden
The Dunedin Chinese Garden is an example of a late Ming, early Ching Dynasty Scholar¡¯s Garden, surrounded by a four metre perimeter wall.
The Scholar¡¯s Garden was traditionally the focal point of a family compound, which sometimes gathered several hundred family members and servants into a kind of ¡®gated¡¯ community.
It was in the Scholar¡¯s Garden part of the compound where guests and important visitors were received and entertained, and where the Scholar himself (a highly regarded member of Chinese society) lived and worked.
A Chinese Garden is, therefore, more than just a garden in the European sense, where rocks, water plants and buildings are important, symbolic, elements.
The Dunedin Chinese Garden uses authentic Chinese materials crafted by a team of artisans/craftsmen for Dunedin¡¯s sister city of Shanghai
In addition to the hand-made wooden buildings the Garden features hand-made tiles, bricks and lattice-work and granite paving stones, which have been hand-finished.
In particular the use of ¡®lake stone¡¯ - 900 tonnes of it - represents an essential element of Chinese art form since the Tang Dynasty (600-900 AD).
www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=chinese_garden_home
The Dunedin Chinese Garden is an example of a late Ming, early Ching Dynasty Scholar¡¯s Garden, surrounded by a four metre perimeter wall.
The Scholar¡¯s Garden was traditionally the focal point of a family compound, which sometimes gathered several hundred family members and servants into a kind of ¡®gated¡¯ community.
It was in the Scholar¡¯s Garden part of the compound where guests and important visitors were received and entertained, and where the Scholar himself (a highly regarded member of Chinese society) lived and worked.
A Chinese Garden is, therefore, more than just a garden in the European sense, where rocks, water plants and buildings are important, symbolic, elements.
The Dunedin Chinese Garden uses authentic Chinese materials crafted by a team of artisans/craftsmen for Dunedin¡¯s sister city of Shanghai
In addition to the hand-made wooden buildings the Garden features hand-made tiles, bricks and lattice-work and granite paving stones, which have been hand-finished.
In particular the use of ¡®lake stone¡¯ - 900 tonnes of it - represents an essential element of Chinese art form since the Tang Dynasty (600-900 AD).
www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=chinese_garden_home