Abstract:
Li Yu’s gardening aesthetics highlighted originality and artistic personality, emphasized the mood and charm of artistic representation, and advocated a combination of vacuousness with reality and integrity of space and time. The penetration and separation of windows, railings and walls played an essential role in creating an unique effect of beauty. Moreover, Li expounded the aesthetic device of scenery invoking, a exquisite means of thinking to create and extend artistic space in the art of Chinese gardening, in his masterpiece Notes of Easy Impressions, which is a landmark of Chinese classical gardening aesthetics.
