Sunday, 1 September 2013

Chinese Art and Landscape: The Yellow Mountains



I watched with interest Monty Don's "Around the World in 80 Gardens", the episode on China and Japan, and the section on the Yellow Mountains of Huangshang in particular (from 16.10-22.58 mark).

Programme information:

"Monty Don visits the world's 80 most inspiring gardens, this time in China and Japan, two of the world's oldest gardening cultures. In China he visits the ancient scholars' gardens of Suzhou and the awesome Yellow Mountains of Huangshang that inspired them. He visits the Imperial Summer Palace Gardens of Beijing. In Kyoto, Japan's city of gardens, he tries to understand the Zen garden".

The Yellow Mountains have some echos of the Zagori region in Greece, the Vikos Gorge and Pindus mountain range.




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