Summer in Suzhou Gardens is healing #chinesegarden #landscape #summertime #greenday #spacedesign

Summer in Suzhou Gardens is healing
#chinesegarden #landscape #ancientart #summertime #greenday

For the Suzhou Garden video soundtrack, I started with the Chinese guqin古琴, guzheng古箏, and guxiao古蕭 …… and later the Western instruments of flute, piano, harp, and violin. Influenced by the background music of Japanese garden videos, I used yoga music and felt that these were the most suitable for the classical gardens of Suzhou under my lens.

The melodies of yoga music are calm, naive, stretching, and melodious, bringing the viewer into the scenery, meditating in the viewing, and allowing one to return to the tranquility and elegance of the ancient gardens in a dream.

In fact, the garden landscape trees in this have a natural melody: birds singing, wind joy, rain crying …… frogs, cicadas singing ……
But it’s just a pity that these have now been covered and drowned by the clamor of the tourists, the guide’s horn, and the tedious shouting of the wedding photographer.

Shoot and text: Liu Hua 劉華
Lived in seclusion in Suzhou for 23 years, just to photograph and study the ancient garden in spring, summer, autumn, winter, wind, frost, rain, and snow ……

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Artist profile:
Liu Hua, a graduate of the Department of Chinese Painting at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, previously served as a faculty member at Hengyang Normal College (currently the Department of Fine Arts at Hengyang Normal University). Presently, he resides in Suzhou as a professional artist, dedicating himself to the realms of painting, sculpture, photography, art landscape design, graphic design, art theory research, and online writing. He is the author of “Into the New Landscape.” Since 2001, he has passionately immersed himself in the photography and exploration of Suzhou’s classical gardens, as well as the creation of modern experimental ink and wash artworks, accumulating 23 years of profound experience in these endeavors.