Talk:Chinese garden

The future of this article
I propose the direction this article should take several sections based on the existing and better japanese garden article.


 * History an explantion of the historial context the gardens developed in, the needs they served, the evolution of garden styles within that context and why they formed and their relationship to chinese architecture and agriculture and art


 * Design both concepts and elements with an explanation of why each element exists and its relevance to chinese culture


 * In depth section on each of the three main styles of gardens citing famous case-study examples with a full explanation of the social and historical relevance of that particular style.


 * a well organized image gallery to illustrate specific concepts of chinese garden design and should be labeled as such

I think there is enough text existing in articles on specific chinese gardens to expand this article. I would further recommend the amount of pinyin, logograms, and chinese proper names be kept to an absolute minimum as it really starts to affect readablity, this is a very general article. --Gurdjieff (talk) 10:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Moreover the English is stilted and sounds...foreign for lack of a better word. More emotional and frilly than is appropriate for an encyclopedia article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.84.58.144 (talk) 19:38, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Correct Term?
There needs to be a clear English translation for 绅士This was the social class that staffed the civil service of the Chinese Empire(s). So far in literature I have seen: Scholar-bureaucrats, scholar-officials, scholar, bureaucrats, officials, literati, gentlemen, intellectuals, gentry, scholar-gentry, civil-servant, ect.

yet, according to existing Wikipedia the correct translation is: Scholar any thoughts on this? --Gurdjieff (talk) 12:18, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

About the character 園
The character 園 is a phono-semantic compound, with 袁 as the phonetic component and 囗 as the semantic component (see etymology). The stuff about 園 in the article is incorrect (and unreferenced). Therefore, I'm removing it and its inferences. Asoer (talk) 01:54, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

table of gardens
The following table was in the article under the section "The classical gardens of Suzhou" and it does not seem finished... I will place it here, in case someone still wants to keep and edit it. Cold Season (talk) 07:48, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

About headers
About the section headers, it may be useful to look at MOS:HEAD, especially the first bullet point, which advises against repeating the page name in the section headers. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:48, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Classical Chinese gardens
I do not agree with assimilating the expression "classical Chinese garden" to the article on Chinese gardens. This term is vague and there is no real definition of what is or is not classical (does it have chronological limits, if yes which? Or regional limits? Or is it a question of relative quality, in which case who decided on the criteria?). And for what it is worth, the term "Chinese garden" itself has been criticised, but it would be complicated to enter in this debate on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josepha Richard (talk • contribs) 18:50, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

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