The Art of Rock-Chiseling in Chinese Ancient Mountain-garden

Rock-Chiseling was widely used in Chinese ancient mountain-gardens, which was recorded in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and matured in the continuous development.As the existing study lacks systematic research, the authors, collecting cases recorded in ancient literatures, try to discuss about the origin and development of Rock-Chiseling in Chinese ancient mountain-gardens, as well as the main features and art value of them.And based on this, the authors grouped the Rock-Chiseling types into Rock-Chiseling for peaks, Rock-Chiseling for caves, Rock-Chiseling for valleys, Rock-Chiseling for paths, and Rock-Chiseling for carvings.Rock-Chiseling can make the best use of the topography and site feature, and integrate the artificial landscape with natural landscape by less manpower and material resources, which represent the Chinese conventional wisdom.The ideas and ways of Rock-Chiseling have practical values in the development of landscape city in nowadays, and will play a prominent part in the design of mountain-gardens, especially in the landscape restoration of quarry wastelands.