Abstract:Chuci is the source of the Chinese romantic literature and a gem of the history of literature. It artistically records the living environment and landscape scenes of the ancestors of Chu State. On the basis of the relationship among words, image and meaning and the method of psychological mechanism in artistic conception, this thesis researches the artistic conception of garden in the Chuci and what thoughts it carries. Then it interprets the artistic conception of three kinds of gardens, namely, imperial garden, palace garden and nobiliary garden respectively, which concludes the ideas of living environment and the supremacy of monarchical power, in regard to the harmony between man and nature, humanism, romanticism and fairyland.
