What are the characteristics of the promenade?

The promenade in China's architecture is not only an extension of the inner rooms, buildings and pavilions, but also a link from the main building to all parts. The long corridor in the garden not only plays the role of interpenetration and connection between garden buildings, but also plays the role of guiding line of garden landscape.

The forms of corridors are curved corridors, straight corridors, wave corridors and composite corridors. According to the location, there are corridor along the wall, corridor along the mountain, corridor along the water, back corridor, bridge corridor and so on.

The winding promenade has many twists and turns. Some of them are built against the wall, while others are turned outwards, forming small courtyards of different sizes and shapes between the fence and the promenade, in which flowers and trees are sparse and rocks are stacked, adding countless beautiful scenery with changeable spatial levels to the garden.

The two sides of the compound corridor are integrated, with a leaky window wall in the middle, or two corridors are parallel and tortuous, which plays a role in separating and organizing garden space. Climbing promenades are all built along the mountain, which not only connects the buildings up and down the hillside, but also fluctuates with the terrain, making the landscape rich. The water promenade is generally above the water surface, which can not only increase the change of the spatial level of the water surface, but also make the reflection of the water surface interesting. The bridge promenade is a pavilion set on the bridge, which has both the traffic function of the bridge and the rest function of the promenade.