Abstract:Located on the marshland of the Pearl River in the west of Guangzhou, Immortal Guesthouse on the Sea and Hill-Island which was built in the late Qing Dynasty, is known as one of the most famous Lingnan historic gardens. Built on the basis of previous garden, it takes the “Fairyland on the sea” as the artistic conception and realm. Due to a comprehensive use of natural and cultural resources, it integrates traditional literati freehand landscape garden with local style. Previous scholars have done a lot of research on it. The research materials of this paper include the painting by Xia Luan in 1848, and other relevant historical materials, foreign translations, image materials. Based on characteristics of Chinese traditional “literati natural freehand landscape garden”, the location choice and the ways to generate design concepts and create fairyland images are analyzed, while the root causes of these scenes are also explored.
