He Ding

The Qing Dynasty was the golden age of the development of Chinese opera and the maturation of garden culture. As core carriers of Qing culture, opera and gardens formed a profound symbiotic relationship at both material and spiritual levels—gardens provided natural performance spaces and aesthetic inspiration for opera, while opera enriched gardens with narrative connotations and cultural metaphors through literary writing. This study, with "literary writing" and "spatial construction" as dual cores, combines Lefebvre's theory of "spatial production," Foucault's theory of "heterotopia," and China's traditional spatial aesthetics. Using interdisciplinary methods such as textual analysis, cultural history verification, and comparative literature research, it systematically analyzes the typological characteristics, spatial construction logic, and cultural connotations of garden writing in Qing opera. The study finds that garden writing in Qing opera exhibits three major types: lyrical, narrative, and symbolic. Its spatial construction encompasses the aesthetic reconstruction of physical space, emotional attachment to spiritual space, and hierarchical representation of social space. Essentially, it is a multifaceted fusion of Confucian ethical order, Taoist pursuit of nature, and urban cultural tastes, serving as a cultural mirror of Qing social transformation.

Qing Dynasty opera; garden writing; spatial construction; cultural metaphor; aesthetic paradigm

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