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In this section, follow up from the previous section,

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I'm going to talk about Westlake culture landscape in Hangzhou.

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to talk about its culture Landscape value .

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I am very familiar with this side.

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because I use this as my PHD case studies

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The west lake cultural landscape of Hangzhou comprising the west lake

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and the hills surrounding is free sites.

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The inspired famous poets, scholars, artistic things

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and centuries it compromise enormous temples, pagoda pavilion gardens,

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as well as causeways and artificial island.

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These additional have been made to improve landscape

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west of the city of Hangzhou to the south of the Yangzi river

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The west lake has influenced garden design in the rest of China

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as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries

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and bears exceptional testimony to the culture traditional of the improving landscape

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to create a series of vistas reflecting are analyzed fusion between human and nature.

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West lake is surrounded on the three island

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by the cult climb hills on the fourth of the city of Hangzhou.

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Its beauty has been celebrated by writers ,artistic since the Tang dynasty.

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In order to make it more beautiful,

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its islands, causeways and the lower slopes of its hills have been 'improved'

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by the addition of numerous temples, pagodas, pavilions, gardens

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and ornamental trees which merge with farmed landscape.

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The main artificial elements of the lake,

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two causeways and three islands

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were created from repeated dredgings between the 9th and 12th centuries.

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On 24 June 2011,

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UNESCO inscribed the West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou to the World Heritage List,

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claiming that it ‘bears an exceptional testimony

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to the cultural tradition of improving landscapes

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to create a series of vistas reflecting an idealised fusion between humans and nature’,

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based on criteria (ii), (iii) and (vi) .

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Since the Southern Song Dynasty ten poetically named scenic places have been identified

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as embodying idealised, classic landscapes -

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that manifest the perfect fusion between man and nature.

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West Lake is an outstanding example of a cultural landscape that

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display with great clarity the ideals of Chinese landscape aesthetics,

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as expounded by writers and scholars in Tang and Song Dynasties.

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The landscape of West Lake had a profound impact on the design of gardens not only in China

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but further inluence other places, like Japan and Korea

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where lakes and causeways imitated the harmony and beauty of West Lake.

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The key component of West Lake still allow it inspire people

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to project building onto landscape the visual parameters of these vast landscape gardens,

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clearly defined rising to reach of the surrounding hills, as viewed from the Hangzhou.

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We can see from this picture is that, you know, this is West lake,

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this is a Kunming lake in summer palace.

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And the design of the Kunming lake is actually influenced by the West Lake.

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The criterion 2

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As I already mentioned the summer palace, it is about cultural exchange.

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The improved landscape of West Lake can be seen to reflect Buddhist ideals

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imported into China from India such as 'Buddhist peacefulness' and 'nature as paintings',

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and in turn it had a major influence on landscape design in East Asia.

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Its causeways, islands, bridges, temples, pagodas and well defined views,

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were widely copied over China

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notably in the summer Palace at Beijing and in Japan,Korea.

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The notion of ten poetically named scenic places persisted for seven centuries all over China

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and also spread to the Korean peninsula after the 16th century

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when Korean intellectuals made visits to the West Lake.

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The West Lake landscape is an exceptional testimony

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to the very specific cultural tradition of improving landscapes

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to create a series of 'pictures' that reflect what was seen

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as a perfect fusion between people and nature,

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a tradition that evolved in the Tang and Song Dynasties

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and has continued its relevance to the present day.

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The 'improved' West Lake, with its exceptional array of

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man-made causeways, islands, bridges, gardens, pagodas and temples,

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against a backdrop of the wooded hills,

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can be seen as an entity that manifests this tradition in an outstanding way.

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and also based on the criteria six, that intangible values that

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The Tang and Song culture of demonstrating harmony

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between man and nature by improving the landscape to create pictures of great beauty,

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captured by artists and given names by poets, is highly visible in the West Lake Landscape,

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with its islands, causeways, temples, pagodas and ornamental planting.

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The value of that tradition has persisted for seven centuries in West Lake

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and has spread across China and into Japan and Korea

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So this is show some the best of the ten scenic places in West Lake

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Since the Southern Song Dynasty ‘Poetically Named Scenic Places’ emerged,

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which are called the ‘Xihushijing in English is ‘Ten Poetically Named Scenic Places of West Lake’

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which issues on the screen is two of the a ten pointed scenic places

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The series of ten scenic places were contributed to

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by many scholars and artists from the 13th to 18th centuries,

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which include these two areas ， Sudichunxiao，Santanyingyue

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as shows on the screen