老庄园林观(一)

Lao-Zhuang's Garden View(Part 1)

老庄认为,自然之中蕴藏着天地人三才之道。他们倡导人们应用朴素之心而非功利之心,在自然环境而非人工自然环境中生活,并把这种生活上升为自在的逍遥游。又因只有逍遥游方能更好地揭示自然的本质,这种游览也被称为采真之游。而师法自然,其实是营造类似自然的空间和要素,在类自然的园林环境中寻求道的痕迹正是老庄园林审美的本质。他们的这些思想,无不流露于园名景名之中。因此,从大量的历代园景题名中,找到了老庄思想闪光之处。

From the perspective of Lao-Zhuang, there hides three fundamentals of Heaven, Earth and People in nature. They suggest that people should live in natural environment rather than in unnatural one, with a heart of simplicity rather than utilitarianism. They call this kind of life Peripateticism. Since only Peripateticism could uncover nature＇s essence better, it is also called the travel of collecting trueness. Learning from nature means building space and elements like nature. Searching the imprints of Dao is rightly the aesthetic essence of Lao-Zhuang gardens. Their ideas are embodied in garden titles and landscape inscriptions. Accordingly, the paper identifies the highlights of Lao-Zhuang＇s ideas.