▲ Wang Yueting
People's ideal life is probably in a yard, "watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, watching the clouds rolling in the sky", reading a book and drinking a cup of tea in their spare time, temporarily avoiding the noise and impatience of life, allowing themselves to calm down, slow down, observe the natural composition of things, and help themselves understand and cope with impermanence. All this is about the courtyard.
▲ Wang Yueting
In the flashy late Ming Dynasty, material prosperity was unprecedented. After retirement, scholars are keen to build courtyards and gardens to accommodate their bodies, minds and souls. In China's view, being friends with mountains and rivers is the best way to practice, so as to get close to nymphs and enter the valley. This is probably the most ideal living condition for China people. Nowadays, people living in noisy cities are trapped by the noise and impetuousness around them. Every day, they live a fixed life from nine to five according to the established route. They yearn for famous mountains and rivers in their hearts, but they can't go in person because of the constraints of reality. Therefore, people express their feelings for every tree, bamboo and stone in their lives. China people's love for mountains and rivers has always been rooted in their hearts, and quadrangles have never changed.
▲ Wang Yueting
The most ideal courtyard environment, Lin Yutang once described: "There is a house in the garden and a courtyard in the house. There are trees in the yard, from which you can see the sky. There is a moon in the sky, so it's not too fast. " There is a courtyard with pine and cypress, which is evergreen all the year round and makes people feast their eyes on it; Plant all kinds of flowers, fragrant all the year round, as a nose scene; Then attract flowing water, and the four seasons are mixed to make an ear view. On a sunny day, you can see the shadow of the sun on the plain wall and turn it into a clever picture; At night, the moonlight in the yard can be regarded as frost removal. When the process of urbanization pours into everyone's life, we are all drifting in it, and no one is spared. When people live in tall buildings, they can no longer feel the kindness of being close to nature.
▲ Wang Yueting
Mr. Mu Xin said, "Modern people live in one house, one for each person, and spend their time safely and richly." In the city, when the courtyard can't become everyone's residence, the appearance of public courtyard becomes extremely important, and it can become everyone's spiritual ideal country. Therefore, the style art museum conveys the spiritual thinking of a city to the world, including a full moon court, a 24-hour study, an open-air art museum and even a teahouse.
▲ Style Art Museum
Hedong District of Tianjin, where Wang Yueting is located, belongs to the old city. A Jintang road is wide and long, and there are many old houses on both sides of the road, which is full of rich human fireworks. When the subway passes the viaduct, everything around it points to speed, noise and simple life. The Moon Palace stands quietly in this downtown area, and the main hall is completely open to Jintang Road, which is a quiet landscape belonging to the public.
▲ Wang Yueting
Full Moon Pavilion is based on Japanese gardens, but it is different from Japanese gardens. When people mention Japan, they will think of the word "exquisite", such as kimono, tea ceremony, ukiyo-e painting and Japanese cuisine, and Japanese gardens are no exception. The gardening techniques of Japanese gardens are very complicated and delicate. Every grass, tree, sand and stone has been carefully designed, but it gives people the impression that the runway is dazzling fashion, exquisite and expensive, and it is difficult to get close to the public.
In fact, Japanese gardens can not only be viewed from a distance, but also be walked in, understood and discussed. Whether young Buddhists or old people, experts and scholars or ordinary tourists, they can experience the beauty of Japanese gardens and the core of Zen culture. At present, it seems that we need a garden more than ever. Garden, as a habitable, tourable and beneficial space, allows us to better understand the real nature. Time slows down here, and life slows down here. We return to our hearts and find our true selves in plants, trees, bamboo, ponds and waterside pavilions. Perhaps only in the garden, in the closest way to nature, can we meditate, then settle down, and then see nature clearly.
▲ Wang Yueting
Therefore, taking Japanese traditional gardens as the blueprint, and then adjusting them according to local conditions, it is a suitable choice to transform them into a form that is more in line with the characteristics of the public landscape, reduce the sense of rejection of Japanese gardens, and make them truly popular, liberalized and barrier-free.
The only criterion is that one party lives in the garden of the soul and creates beauty. The main courtyard of the Moon Palace is a common type of Japanese gardens-Chiquanyuan style, which consists of a pool, a green island and white sand. The main court follows the China classical garden pattern of "one pool with three mountains" and is decorated with a shallow pool with different scenery in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The main hall of the Moon Palace is mainly blue and white, with white sand all over the ground. Chinese pine has its own posture, either strong or beautiful, or carefree. From different angles, it is layered and patchy. The main court is carefully covered by Sedum sarmentosum, and the hairy Sedum sarmentosum is bright green and lively, giving people a feeling of healing. Simple and elegant, quiet and profound, the creation of a full moon court coincides with China's Zen aesthetic. Everyone passing by will stop, watch and feel. This is probably the power of the garden.
▲ Wang Yueting
In the fast-developing China, busyness is the norm. When everyone is on the road, it is tempting to slow down once in a while, unload the pressure and give yourself a meditation. Therefore, Japanese gardens, especially the Zen Pavilion with withered mountains and rivers, are necessary as the concrete embodiment of abstract Zen culture and aesthetics. It is the entrance to get close to and understand Zen culture, giving people a chance to escape from the hustle and bustle of the world temporarily.
▲ Wang Yueting
On one side of the full moon court is an open-air art museum. It started from the main building of the Style Art Museum-the rotunda, and spread more than 300 meters eastward, becoming an important part of the whole public landscape. The white gallery inspired by White Paper and Clean Island is still covered with white sand, and the visual effect is very shocking.
▲ Style Art Museum Open-air Art Museum
People often say that "children grow up in museums", but in open-air art galleries, children can nourish themselves. The open-air art museum is a flowing world, the viewer is the heart and the artist is the object. The paintings displayed at different times are different, but what remains unchanged is the essence of the open-air art museum as a carrier of beauty. Here, you can see the paintings of the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasties in the East, as well as the abstractism, impressionism and realism in the West, and the works of art at all times and all over the world will be presented here. Undoubtedly, art plays an important role in the process of cultivating people. Lin Sanzhi, a calligrapher, said: "Life is not easy. Knowing some art is comfort." White sand and pure white curtain walls are elegant. When you are in a pure space, the beauty of art is more pure. Seeing an exhibition and enjoying a few paintings can probably be worth ten years of dusty dreams. People watching the exhibition, in the March of changing scenery, naturally became the flowing scenery in others' eyes.
▲ Style Art Museum Open-air Art Museum
Having a study is probably the dream of many scholars. Liang Shiqiu wrote in "Elegant House": "I have a chair, a couch, all of them, and I don't want them." The study is a world, let us find the freedom and chic inside. In the fragmented network era, it is an extravagant hope to read a book and several articles with peace of mind. "Reading does not change our temperament, but also changes our spirit." In the world of paper, we can complete self-reflection, inhabit the body and mind, and place the soul. This is probably another form of "great freedom".
▲ Style Art Museum 24-hour study room
In the rotunda of Style Art Museum, there is a 24-hour study room with more than 500 kinds and more than 4,000 magazines, including more than 60 kinds of fashion magazines10 and more than 0 kinds of life magazines10. Among them, more than 75% are foreign magazines that are difficult to subscribe to in China. In addition, there are 6,000 books, including more than 1,000 art books/kloc-0, which are expensive to purchase and maintain. A large number of picture books and picture books cover multiple languages and categories.
▲ Style Art Museum 24-hour study room
Tired of reading, I got up and walked through rows of bookcases and came to the glass curtain wall. The quiet beauty of the moon-watching court comes into view. This is like the garden outside the old scholar's study, with the shadow of pine trees, pool water and some rocks. The study nourishes the spirit and travels thousands of volumes. The garden outside the study brings light and wind, mountains and water, silence and beauty to the building. It makes people "only connected with the spirit of heaven and earth."
▲ Style Art Museum 24-hour study room
Gardens make China people poetic. It's Yan Shu's "Pear Flower Garden Dissolves the Moon, Catkin Pond has a faint wind", and Ouyang Xiu's "How deep the courtyard is, the willow piles up smoke, and the curtain doesn't count". Even people who can't write poetry will happily meet the flowers, listen to Lin Quan and look at the sun and the moon with peace of mind in those moments of leisure and meditation. On the one hand, the garden makes people turn ordinary days into poems, so as to resist the mediocrity and mediocrity in the years.
▲ Wang Yueting
In the Style Art Museum, there are gardens, books, tea and paintings, which contain the ideal life of China people. The moon-watching pavilion has turned the Japanese-style garden into a public landscape, from "one person's garden" to "a group of people's garden", from "a lonely garden" to "a place where souls live", and from seclusion to warmth and openness. The garden in this downtown area is open to the public, and no one is refused to watch it, and it is passed on to those who are in a hurry.