Tu Fu once said “Even if the nation should be destroyed, the mountains and rivers will remain”. The Chinese people are well aware of the grandeour in the geography of their land. Chinese civilization has developed over thousands of years in an environment composed of five mountain ranges forming a criss-crossing grid and whose “upland” account for eighty-five percent of the country, leaving a mere fifteen percent of land available for farming. In addition to …showed first 75 words of 1087 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1087 total…explore the many ‘frames’ it embodies; not just a single view. As one moves through the garden they are not meant to let the retinal images be ends in and of themselves but instead they are meant to conjure up a world, much larger than the garden, in the viewer’s mind which in turn can be expressed in forms such as poetry. A literary tradition, especially poetic, is therefore associated with the Chinese garden.