Abstract:Introduction Ancient Chinese gardens, according to the differences of ownership, function and scale, are divided into three basic types: imperial gardens, private gardens, and temple gardens 1)2). Among them, imperial gardens and private gardens, as essential space for daily activities of owners including emperors, scholar bureaucrats and literati stratum, are two existing types of Chinese gardens which stress the gist of "nature in city and living beside nature landscape" in traditional gardening culture 3). … Show more
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