The Developing Process and Features of Chinese Classical Gardens in Ming Dynasty

摘要

As a transiting period, the Ming Dynasty gardens showed a creation of its uniqueness. Private gardens in Ming Dynasty mainly focused on small courtyard, it had an unadorned style and they were extremely rich in symbols of leisure landscape; Ming royal gardens' development was slightly left behind, but it lead itself to form a special style which was rough and heroic. Through analysis and comparison to the gardens from Ming, Song and Qing Dynasty, it is concluded that the Ming Dynasty gardens is an inheritance and development of Song Dynasty gardens' intention, and its characteristics had a plentiful variation of space. To Sum up, the Ming dynasty gardens chose circuitous paths, enhancing the level of landscape and highlighting central spot of landscape as its routine.