What are the traditional gardening techniques in China?

Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, China has developed natural landscape gardens. Landscaping in gardens is often based on sculpted mountains and sculpted water, which means "the scenery follows the shape", "there is a reason for borrowing the scenery", "it is natural to get the interest of nature" and "it is natural although it is artificial".

Traditional gardening techniques in China mainly include:

(1) Dig lakes and pile mountains, shape the terrain, clean up rivers and lakes, build roads and create landscapes;

(two) the construction of towers, pavilions, pavilions, halls, pavilions, corridors, bridges, boats, zhaobi, walls, platforms, ramps, scenic spots and other building facilities, to create architectural landscape;

(3) Building rockeries, peaks, caves and cliffs with stones to create rockery scenery;

(4) Arranging valleys, streams, rocks and turbulence to generate streams;

⑤ Pile up boulders and cliffs and pour water down to create a waterfall scene; ⑥ Set shallow pools according to the terrain, build rocky mountain fountains, stock ornamental fish, plant lotus flowers, reeds and flowers to create waterscape;

⑦ Use different combinations to arrange communities, so as to reflect the changes of forest edge and seasonal phase or highlight the posture of isolated trees, or trim trees to make them have various shapes and create flowers and trees.

⑧ Arrange all kinds of sculptures in the garden or combine them with topography and water, or stand alone as the composition center, with sculptures as the main body to create a modeling landscape.