Garden refers to a specially cultivated natural environment and recreation realm. It is called a garden that creates beautiful natural environment and recreation realm by transforming terrain, planting trees and flowers, building buildings and arranging garden roads in a certain area by using engineering technology and artistic means. Classical garden architecture is unique in Chinese traditional architecture and has great achievements.

An ideal environment for living. Build good health comfortable, pure and fresh and pleasant climate conditions, due to the bad living environment in ancient China, Chinese classical garden landscape is very pay great attention to improve microclimate condition, create a more comfortable and pleasant environment, the layout of the mountain water, plant cultivation, ting corridor construction etc., all with light, air, temperature on the basis of the factors such as human body comfort, Form an ideal environment for comfortable and pleasant living.

Architectural style. From the architectural style of gardens, classical gardens are two basic forms: orderly gardens and landscape gardens. At all times and in all countries, the garden is an environmental art of adapting measures to local conditions and cleverly borrowing scenery to make the building natural and interesting. Due to the architectural style and characteristics, China's classical gardens are generally divided into three types: northern type, mainly in Beijing for the royal gardens. The architectural scale is grand, the architectural posture is dignified, the emphasis is on the imperial prestige and wealth characteristics, there are Beijing Summer Palace, Chengde Summer Resort. Jiangnan style, with Suzhou gardens as the representative, mostly private gardens, generally small area, to win by the fine, its style chic and lively, exquisite elegant, beautiful and beautiful, rich in jiangnan water town characteristics, and pay attention to simple natural beauty. Such as Humble Administrator's Garden, Master of the Nets Garden and so on. Lingnan style, represented by Guangdong garden, not only has the steady, stately and elegant of northern garden, but also integrates the simple and elegant of Jiangnan garden, and absorbs foreign gardening techniques, thus forming a small style, such as Hangzhou West Lake.

Chinese classical gardens refer to the Chinese landscape gardens represented by private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River and royal gardens in the north. They are unique in the development history of gardens in the world and valuable historical and cultural heritage for all mankind.