扬州贺氏东园考

Textual Research on the East Garden of the He Family in Yangzhou

雍正年间,晋商贺君召在扬州法海寺东侧构建园林,称为东园。东园是一座半开放式的园林,以桥为门,有春雨堂、云山阁等诸景。其以溪流为墙,与园外莲花埂、保障湖似隔非隔,制造出虚实相间的空间。又充分运用了“借景”的造园手法,将蜀冈、平山及京口三山纳入园中,使东园既富有山林田园之野趣,亦有绝尘缥缈之意境。东园雅集活动众多,可续写兰亭修禊、辋川酬唱之风雅。

During Yongzheng’s reign,He Junzhao,a businessman from Shanxi province,built a garden on the east side of Fahai Temple in Yangzhou,which is called the east garden.The east garden is a semi open garden,with a bridge as the door,a stream as the wall,and the lotus ridge outside the garden and the Safeguard Lake as if separated from each other,creating a space between the real and the virtual.In addition,by making full use of the gardening technique of“borrowing scenery”,Mr.He incorporated the three mountains of Shugang,Pingshan and Jingkou into the garden,which made the east garden not only rich in wild and pastoral scenery,but also had the ethereal artistic conception.There were many literati gatherings in the east garden,which can be continued to write about the elegance of the waterside ritual in Lanting and leisure in Wangchuan.