南朝玄圃园考

A Textual Research on the Xuanpu Garden in the Southern Dynasties

南朝玄圃园始修于南北朝宋元嘉时期,陈朝末年被毁。经考证,其位置大约在今南京市珠江路河道(古台城北堑,即潮沟)以南的桃源新村一带。园内山、水、建筑、动植物繁多,景色精美。从南齐文惠太子萧长懋到南梁昭明太子萧统,玄圃园实现了由极尽奢华、纵情声色的游乐园到陶冶情操、治学树业的文人园的转变与升华。

Xuanpu Garden was built in the Yuanjia Period of the Song Dynasty, and was destroyed at the end of the Chen Dynasty. The garden was tocated in the area of today＇s Taoyuan Village to the south of Zhujianglu River in Nanjing City. The hills, water, buildings, animals and plants of the gardenwere various and the scenery was fine. From Prince Xiao Changmao of the Southern Qi Dynasty to Prince Xiao Tong of the Southern Liang Dynasty, the garden had transformed from the place of luxury and debauchery into the place of edifying sentiment and doing scholarly research.