The Rockscape in Tang and Song Dynasties Based on the Jiuyao Stone on the Yaozhou Ruins

LIN Guang-zhen，lu Qi

（School of Architecture of South China University of Technology，guangzhou Municipal Key Laboratory of Landscape Architecture，guangzhou 510641，China）

Abstract: The Yaozhou Ruins in Guangzhou was a palace garden of the Southern Han that existed during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The construction of the palace of the Southern Han started from the eighth year of Qianheng (924 A.D.). It contained a large number of placed stones and piled stones. After the Song Dynasty replacing the Southern Han, these gardens in the palace started serving the citizens and were kept to this day. Since most of the existing classical gardens were built after the Ming Dynasty, the Jiuyao Stone on the Yaozhou Ruins is a valuable remain of the rockscape in the early China classical gardens. Combined with the rockscape in landscape painting of ancient China and historical literature, this paper analyzes the morphological characteristics of the Jiuyao Stone in the Yaozhou Ruins, and probes into the possibility of the rockscape in Chinese classical gardens in Tang and Song Dynasties. In general, the Jiuyao Stone on the Yaozhou Ruins is a rare remain in the classical gardens and an important evidence of the evolution of rockscape, which is of great significance to the exploration of the source of rockscape evolution in Chinese classical gardens.

Key words: China classical gardens; Tang and Song Dynasties; Rockscape; The Jiuyao Stone on the Yaozhou Ruins