What are the main forms of architectural elements "architecture" in Lingnan gardens?

There are many types of buildings in Lingnan Gardens, including towers, boats, boathouses, pavilions, covered bridges and other corresponding facilities, but all of them focus on life. In courtyard gardens, there are few small buildings in Jiangnan gardens, such as pavilions. Instead, residential buildings are put in the first place, such as lighting stones in living rooms, bedrooms, roofs, corridors and patios, planting potted plants and arranging flowers. Diaolou is one of the most distinctive buildings in Lingnan Garden, which originated from Diaobao, but it takes the form of folk carved architecture, just like the purpose of mountain architecture in Jiangnan Garden, for borrowing scenery. For example, the Invited Mountain Pavilion in Dongguan Keyuan and the Liu Fen Pavilion in Qinghui Garden in Foshan. As a microcosm of coastal culture, the ship is also very distinctive. Garden boats in the north and south of the Yangtze River are all made into real boat shapes, and there are gardens in Lingnan, such as the stone boat in Liangyuan, the purple hole boat in Baomo Garden and the boat in Keyuan. The ship hall not only has ships, but also combines the hall with the ship, taking more ship names and intentions and less ship shapes. In ancient times, it was often called "Miss House" because there were primitive boats in the ship hall, and most of them lived in dear daughters, such as Qinghuiyuan and Yuyinshan House. In Lingnan gardens, pavilions are very irregular and varied, or surrounded by cloisters and walls, or interspersed with corner beams and beams, or ethnic minorities. The pavilion has single eaves and double eaves, and the roof forms are various, some of which change in columns.

There are also many bridges in Lingnan gardens, including arch bridges, peace bridges, stone bridges and wooden bridges, which are mostly combined with corridors to form stone arch bridges at the top of corridors. There are many covered bridges in Guangdong. For example, the covered bridge of Yuyin Mountain Residence in Panyu, Guangzhou is particularly famous throughout the country. In addition, there are wind and rain buildings built by ethnic minorities and cable bridges in mountainous areas in Lingnan gardens. In the use of corridors, the front eaves gallery of open single buildings is mostly used in Lingnan Garden, which mainly highlights its practicability. There are also landscape corridors, but they are not the main features of Lingnan gardens. The best arc corridor is Qinghui Garden, and the best bridge corridor is Yuyin Mountain House. In classical gardens and modern gardens, the ground of garden roads and squares is relatively regular and flat. Straight and unyielding roads, geometric squares, sometimes the whole yard is full, because drainage is to reduce erosion and reduce mosquitoes and flies. The practice of "high walls and cold alleys" is a major feature of Lingnan classical gardens. Classical gardens mostly adopt the layout of north-south orientation, with many courtyards, small depth, large vestibule and small backyard, with gardens in front and courtyards behind. These practices aim at obtaining the maximum ventilation effect with the smallest area.