Introduction: the relationship between traditional culture and Chinese gardens

Chinese gardens have a history of more than 3,000 years since the origin of "囿" in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. As a part of traditional Chinese culture, it has been influenced by many aspects of traditional Chinese culture. Chinese gardens "revere nature and learn from nature", and pursue a "unity of heaven and mankind" in the way of "traveling with things in order to travel with the mind". It combines architecture, landscape, poetry, painting, sculpture and other forms of expression into one, with its remote mood, so that the human mind and nature to forget each other. It integrates the time and space factors, allowing people to "feel the distance of ten thousand miles within a stone's throw". This unique style of creation contains a deep cultural heritage, and the development of traditional Chinese cultural thought is inseparable.