ABSTRACT

Garden architectures are shaded in the mountains and plants by these scattered gardens within the Garden, not in pursuit of the architectural scale but focusing on details and artistic conception. Besides, Gaichun Garden, located at the gentle slope, with three tablelands piled by human, combines the royal garden feature of elegance and wealthy and mountainous feature of natural wilderness. The overall architectural layout of Gaichun Garden has skillfully made use of mountainous region and palisades to successfully shape varied spaces, in line with the artistic conception in the book of Yuan Ye, Jicheng (1988) Mountainous region, which is the best place to build garden as the terrain will be high and low, twist and turn, and precipitous and flat, naturally.