Chinese garden architecture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mingxuan is a Chinese garden in New York, based on the "DianChunYi" in Suzhou, covering an area of 460 square meters.The building area is 230 square meters, which is the first example of garden export in China, and creates the precedent of "garden art" foreign trade.

The courtyard was specially designed according to the on-site conditions and use requirements of the museum.The design of the courtyard uses spatial transition, visual transfer and other processing techniques, and absorbs the characteristics of Ming painting landscape sketch, so that the whole garden layout is compact, clear and appropriate.Elegant and lively, reflecting the essence of suzhou classical gardens.The layout design absorbs the essence of suzhou classical garden garden garden spring, sophisticated and perfect, is the classic of foreign garden, known as an eternal exhibit in the history of Chinese and American cultural exchange.

As a matter of fact, the Chinese government has also given absolute attention and help to this extremely important project. The materials used are all the best that can be selected.With special permission from the state, precious nanmu trees were felled from the mountain forests in the suburbs of Chengdu, tied into rafts and transported across the Yangtze River to Suzhou to be used as pillars.This nanmu color embellish brown red, there is a strong fragrance, after hundreds of years also do not eat immortal.You know, in ancient China these materials were only used in the construction of royal gardens and palaces.So you can see the scale of the Ming Xuan project.

Former President Nixon of the United States visited the site and met with our engineers and technicians.The museum gave a high evaluation of the project, "the quality of the craft has reached the standard worthy of the museum and your government proud", which is praised as an eternal exhibit in the history of Sino-American cultural exchange and recorded in the history of modern gardening.Received a high rating of "workmanship quality to a standard worthy of the pride of the museum and your government".

The success of Mingxuan has also successfully opened the export project of Chinese classical gardens.Since then, Chinese gardens have been built in dozens of cities, including San Francisco, Montreal, Vancouver and Frankfurt.The Suzhou Landscape Office also took Ming Xuan as an opportunity to successfully set up the Suzhou Landscape Designer (later renamed Suzhou Landscape Design Institute), and designed the Jixing Garden in New York and lansu Garden in Portland.

The beauty of Chinese jiangnan gardens is not only admired by the Chinese, but also a unique beauty in the history of world architecture.