扬州瘦西湖园林群图卷

Picture Roll of Yangzhou Slender West Lake Gardens

清代康、乾年间,江南园林盛况空前,乾隆六次南巡,瘦西湖成为水上御道,地方绅商争宠,沿瘦西湖营造园林达"三十里楼台",形成"两堤花柳全依水,一路楼台直到山"的盛况,扬州园林也被誉为"园林之胜,甲于天下"。为品赏与再现当时盛景,撰文阐述"乾隆盛世"瘦西湖园林群造园特色,并依据相关史料与现场踏察,以宫廷画家所绘30余座园林画为蓝本,按《清明上河图》长卷形式,绘出《清代康乾盛世扬州瘦西湖园林群图卷》。

During Kangqian times of Qing Dynasty, gardens on the Yangtze Delta were unprecedentedly prosperous. Emperor Qianlong visited the South for inspection for six times, and thus the Slender West Lake became his royal water road. To win over Qianlong’s favor, local gentlemen and businessmen built gardens along the Slender West Lake, reaching the scale of ＂fifteen-kilometer tower＂ and forming the grand view of ＂flower and willow inverted in water, pavilion and rendezvous along the route till the hill＂. The flourish of Yangzhou Garden was honored as ＂the finest under heaven＂. To appreciate and reproduce the prosperous scenery at that time, this paper elaborates the gardening characteristics of the Slender West Lake gardens. Based on related historical data ,on spot exploration and thirty pictures of gardens drawn by royal court painters and the long painting form of Qingming Riverside Scene, the authors draw a Picture Roll of Yangzhou Slender West Lake Gardens during Kangqian Heyday of Qing Dynasty.