Charms of classical Chinese gardens. An ideal ambience for domestic life and pleasures.

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Classical Chinese gardens are one of the important parts of Chinese traditional culture. There are imperial gardens in the north China, while private landscape garden in the south. As the special form and carrier of Chinese architectural culture, classical Chinese gardens express the unique charm of oriental culture. With the concise text and beautiful pictures, this book comprehensively introduces the evolution, building characteristics and artistic achievements of classical Chinese gardens, which shows the great value of Chinese gardens. This book covers more than 50 classical Chinese gardens and is the high-quality work of this kind in recent years. In this book, there are about 60 thousand words, 300 photos covering the gardens all over China, and more than 30 plans, sections and color presentation pictures of the ancient architecture.