Auspicious culture in China often expresses the pursuit of blessings through a pattern. From the air, Kunming Lake looks like a peach, and the buildings on both sides of the Buddha Pavilion in Wanshou Mountain are just in the shape of a bat's wings. As a whole, it looks like a bat, flapping its wings to fly. Visitors who have been to the Summer Palace seldom know that its layout implies the pattern of "longevity". In the 7th issue of China Heritage in 2009, it was reported that the auspicious culture in China often expresses the inner pursuit of blessings through a pattern. From the air, Kunming Lake looks like a peach, and the buildings on both sides of the Buddha Pavilion in Wanshou Mountain are just in the shape of a bat's wings. As a whole, it looks like a bat, flapping its wings to fly. Visitors who have been to the Summer Palace seldom know that its layout implies the pattern of "longevity".
Many people say that Gan Long loves the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the West Lake in Hangzhou, because he has visited it six times in his life. Therefore, in the gardens he managed, he spared no effort to reproduce the beauty of landscape and garden art in the south of the Yangtze River. It's true. For example, in Yuanmingyuan, Qianlong successively built the Xiaoyu Garden, Longjing Temple, Huashen Temple and other scenic spots that imitated the West Lake, and even named the other nine scenic spots in the park one by one according to the ten scenic spots of the West Lake, making up all ten scenic spots.
Qingyi Garden is Beishan (Wanshou Mountain) and Nanhu (Kunming Lake), and Xishan is a mountain peak. However, Wanshou Mountain is relatively low and does not extend enough; The water surface of Kunming Lake is roughly a long and narrow shape inclined to the southeast, and the relationship between mountains and water is somewhat alienated. How to transform? The goal of Gan Long is to combine the lake and mountain improvement project with the water conservancy control project.
As mentioned above, firstly, the lake expands eastward and northward to the south slope of Wanshou Mountain. Then the excavated earthwork was piled in the eastern half of the mountain, which greatly improved the shape of the mountain. As a result, the lake is wider and the mountains are stronger. Then, on the west side of the lake, he added a west dike which is almost the same as the West Lake Su Causeway, dividing Kunming Lake into "inner lake" and "outer lake", and added a branch dike to further divide the outer lake into two parts.
In this way, Kunming Lake, like Hangzhou West Lake, has become a "sunken lake" with several layers inside and outside. Others said that considering that there are several islands of different sizes in the West Lake in Hangzhou, Qingyi Garden specially reserved three large islands and two small islands on the water while digging the lake for piling.
Fairy Island in the Lake: an island symbolizing Penglai, abbot and Yingzhou in Kunming Lake, which was specially designed and built by Emperor Qianlong according to the Taoist idea of seeking immortals. If Long Beach is compared to a necklace, then these three islands are like three scattered gems, shining on the sparkling water. They are located in the center of three lakes of different sizes divided by the western dike, echoing each other from afar.
Why do you want to rely on mountains and rivers? "Where there are mountains and water, there must be gas", which is an important law of traditional geomantic omen. Some people think that traditional Feng Shui is superstition and nonsense. Traditional geomantic omen is actually a study of factors affecting people's physical and mental health in a special way. Its essence is to emphasize beauty-a feeling beneficial to people's physical and mental health. This kind of beauty is natural, harmonious, gentle and pleasant.
Therefore, in traditional geomantic omen, the mountains should have winding and undulating songs, the water should have lingering songs, the roads should have bright flowers, the bridges should have arch tickets, and the corridors should have ileal songs. What does this song mean? Be reserved, embrace, save, be affectionate, and then be energetic. Therefore, we should "embrace the mountains and rivers". It can be said that this idea is not only the acme of China garden culture, but also the essence of China culture. Gan Long is well aware of this.