The “Immersive” Interpretation of Place Image of Jiaxing Small Lingjiu Villa Pictorial Odes of Late Qing Dynasty

The Small Lingjiu Villa, no longer extant now, was a prominent literati home garden in the late Qing Dynasty in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Most of the existing pictorial odes reproduced the garden landscape from the perspective of sightseeing. In order to extrapolate the spatial pattern of this villa and reproduce the scene of touring the garden at acient time, this paper takes the concept of “immersion” as an interpretive tool to decipher these pictorial odes of the villa. It expounds the independent characteristics of the fragments and the dual combination with differences of the villa garden space under the touring narrative perspective. It focuses on the sightseeing scenes of the tourists at that time with the perceptual experience and psychological descriptions in the inscriptions.