{"id":4321,"date":"2010-04-13T06:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2010-04-13T06:29:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T06:29:23","slug":"courting-the-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/courting-the-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Courting the lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/courtyard-house-Beijing1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/courtyard-house-Beijing1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/courtyard-house-Beijing.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/courtyard-house-Beijing.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/caiguo_qiang_courtyard_house_spz050608_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/caiguo_qiang_courtyard_house_spz050608_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is always a challenge when considering heritage how to respect the past while accommodating the new. The houtongs in\u00a0Beijing are now facing the predicament of a modernising city. Traditional society and lifestyles have changed. Consumer demands are different.<\/p>\n<p>So the traditional courtyard house is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-architect.co.uk\/beijing\/caiguo_qiang_courtyard_house.htm\">reinterpreted<\/a>&#8230;and in some instances modernism and tradition are facing each other quite literally.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is much to be gained from <a href=\"http:\/\/yeschinatour.com\/china-guides\/chinese-culture\/courtyard-house\/\">understanding the tradition <\/a>of the courtyard house and the patterns of life which gave rise to it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchbeijing.com\/beijing-courtyard-house-b\/\">The garden <\/a>of the courtyard house seems to have been predominantly a place for trees.. but perhaps also for <a href=\"http:\/\/beijingnotebook.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/beijing-courtyard-house-mei-lanfangs.html\">lawn<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always a challenge when considering heritage how to respect the past while accommodating the new. The houtongs in\u00a0Beijing are now facing the predicament of a modernising city. Traditional society and lifestyles have changed. Consumer demands are different. So the traditional courtyard house is being reinterpreted&#8230;and in some instances modernism and tradition are facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,10,11,14,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}