Video: Garden of 10 Thousand Bridges from West 8
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The European tradition is used to a garden of plants, in Japan a garden of stones is common, the artist Lea Turto creates gardens from plastic dishes, and in the Chinese city of Xi'an, a garden recently appeared, the main objects of which are bridges. It's called that - "Garden of 10,000 bridges".
This garden was created by the West 8 urban and landscape design company, and it was built for the Xi'an International Horticultural Exhibition, which will open the other day, and it will work right until November 22, 2011. However, even after that, many objects created for it will remain intact. This is understandable, the creation of a garden is a painstaking and long-term business. And it is done not for six months, but for many decades or even centuries.
Of course, despite the name, there are not ten thousand bridges in this garden, but only six. But there is no need to accuse West 8 designers of deception and falsification. The Garden of 10 Thousand Bridges is an artistic exaggeration, a metaphor. Indeed, in China, the number 10,000 is sacred. We hope everyone knows the saying that "the path of 10 thousand li begins with one step." So the phrase “to cross 10 thousand bridges” means nothing more than “to live life” (according to Chinese tradition, it is believed that this is how many bridges a person crosses from birth to death).
Moreover, in confirmation of this metaphor, the paths in the garden we are describing are twisted so that a person can continuously walk under it for hours without feeling that he is walking in a circle. And the bridges themselves, especially the three tallest of them, are wonderful points of view for the gardening exhibition that is taking place around.
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