The Gaze in the Temporal Shift: The Writing of Hometown in Yuehchung Yuant’ingchi
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臺大中文學報, 18, 223-265
Journal
臺大中文學報
Journal Issue
18
Pages
223-265
Date Issued
2003-06
Date
2003-06
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Abstract
During late Ming Ch'i, Piaochia's (祁彪佳) removing from office, he choose gardens as the route to return his hometown. On the one hand, he built Yushan garden (寓山園林) and restarted a dialogue with his own hometown. On the other hand, he visited varied gardens in the town and suburbs. Combining personal, family, and regional traditional memories with new sensible visiting experiences, Ch'i remapped his hometown gradually. Beside Yushan Chu (《寓山注》) , Ch'i wrote Yuehchung Yuant'ingchi (《越中園亭記》) at the same time. Yuehchung Yuant'ingchi includes six chapters. It divides into garden's archaeology and present situation survey. Chapter one marks 'archaeology' to keep collective and personal historical garden's memo-ries. The sum of the memorial gardens is 101. Chapter two below records present gardens, including 176 visited gardens and 15 unvisited gardens. The chapter arrangement shows the historical order, but those gardens all exist in a text at the same time. It causes a feeling of the past and the present exists simultaneously. Moreover, it forecasts future reader's vision, future to present is just like present to past. From chapter two to six records present existent gardens. The describing order is from inside the town to the south, the east, the west, and the north of the town. Ch'i mixed up his visiting garden's time and rearranged garden's relationship by spatial direction. His writing shows the purpose not for recording personal travels, but following Loyang Ch'iehlanchi's (《洛陽伽藍記》) writing style. It is interesting to contrast Yang, Hsuanchi (楊衒之) tracing memory city with Chi's remap-ping hometown. There are unvisited gardens appendixes in chapter two, three, and five. The owners or the sites of the gardens are marked, and there remained space waiting for future traveling. The emptiness of unvisited gardens appears that other gardens have already visited. The traveling spirit is therefore emphasized here. To sum up, the writing of Yuehchung Yuant'ingchi chose the hometown gardens as experimental field to catch the image lost in historical and memorial fragments.
Subjects
越中園亭記
祁彪佳
園林
歷遊
Yuehchung Yuant'ingchi
Ch'i
Piaochia
Garden
Have visited
Type
journal article
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