Ming Dynasty Gardens:

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Ming Dynasty Gardens

• Sole unions of nature, art, philosophy

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Map of Modern China Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644)
From http//depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/1xarmin
g.htm
From http//www.richardbarclay.com/traveldiary/c
hinamap.html
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Traditions of Ming Gardens
From http//acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/phalsall/
images/mingtrib.jpg

• Professional designers creating artificial
  mountains
• Traditional landscape painting considered
  analogous with garden design surrounding walls
  as paper and plants rocks as ink
• The idea should precede the brushstroke.
• Mostly privately owned
• Garden as paradise or microcosm
• Space bound by religious thought placing
  history and moral value in union

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Yu Yuanin Gardens (1559)- Shanghai
Fromhttp//www.orientalarchitecture.com/shanghai/
yuyuanindex.htm
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From http//www.orientalarchitecture.com/shanghai
/yuyuanindex.htm
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Both images from http//www.orientalarchitecture.
com/shanghai/yuyuanindex.htm
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From http//www.orientalarchitecture.com/shanghai
/yuyuanindex.htm
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From http//www.orientalarchitecture.com/shanghai
/yuyuanindex.htm
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From http//www.orientalarchitecture.com/shanghai
/yuyuanindex.htm
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Yu Yuanin Gardens doorways
All images from http//www.orientalarchitecture.c
om/shanghai/yuyuanindex.htm
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From http//www.orientalarchitecture.com/shanghai
/yuyuanindex.htm
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Yu Yuanin Gardens windows
All images from http//www.orientalarchitecture.c
om/shanghai/yuyuanindex.htm
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All images from http//www.orientalarchitecture.c
om/shanghai/yuyuanindex.htm
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Both images from http//www.orientalarchitecture.
com/shanghai/yuyuanindex.htm
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Liu Yuan Gardens
From http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magankert/img/li
nger11.jpg
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From http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magankert/img/li
nger11.jpg
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From http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magankert/img/li
nger11.jpg
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Zhou Zheng Yuan Garden
From http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magankert/img/hu
mble1.jpg
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All images from http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magan
kert/img/humble1.jpg
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From http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magankert/img/hu
mble1.jpg
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From http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magankert/img/hu
mble1.jpg
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Both images from http//www.terebess.hu/kert/maga
nkert/img/humble1.jpg
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Bibliography

• http//www.terebess.hu/kert/magankert/img/
• http//depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/1xarming
  .htm http//acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/phalsall/i
  mages/mingtrib.jpg http//www.orientalarchitecture
  .com/shanghai/yuyuanindex.htm
• http//www.groveart.com
• http//www.china.org.cn/ChinaToday/Today/Chin
  aToday/ct99/99-06/ct99-6e-18.html
• http//www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ming/hd_ming
  .htm