The Spiritual Ballast of Qing Scholars in Classical Gardens Based on Six Chapters of a Floating Life

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Ancient Chinese scholars considered the nature as the philosophical proposition of life’s reflective objects and applied it in life. The passions of human (pleasure, anger, sorrow and joy) often come from the natural landscapes. Lao-Zhuang philosophy proposed the philosophical view of advocating the nature and laid the natural landscape garden culture foundation. Meanwhile, this acts on the landscapes of scholars. Chinese paintings and classical garden culture are important constituent parts in traditional Chinese culture. Both of them have a close relation. The former has the spiritual pursuit beyond the world, while the latter endows spirit with entity, hoping for being a hermit in the world. Beginning with theory of paintings, garden appreciation and garden interest shown in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, the author studied Shen Fu and his wife’s comprehension on paintings, their contact details with scholars in the same era, as well as life interest and life attitude in gardens, trying to understand spiritual ballast of Qing scholars displayed in classical gardens through small ones.

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Lei, X. (2017) The Spiritual Ballast of Qing Scholars in Classical Gardens Based on Six Chapters of a Floating Life. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 234-240. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.510020.

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