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Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 中國園林
- Simplified chinese
- 中国园林
- Literal meaning
- China Garden-Woods
- Hanyu pinyin
- Zhōngguó yuánlín
- Romanization
- Tson koh yoe lin
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Chinese classical garden Traditional Chinese中國古典園林 Simplified Chinese中国古典园林 Literal meaningChina Classical Garden-Woods
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world. They create an idealized miniature landscape, which is meant to express the harmony that should exist between man and nature.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chinese garden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.