The most important things in Chinese garden is water and stones.Stone is the bone of the gardens,water is the blood of the gardens.The water in the gardens give it vitality and stone give it power.There are many skills used to arrange water.One of them is uses diagonal line.It is very common in sourthern gardens because most of sourthern gardens are very small,and this skill can make space looks bigger.Many small gardens in Suzhou use this skill to create a kind of mighty feeling.The other kind of skills use to deal with water is builds something like small island,small bridage of something else to make water alive.These men made view not only make water seems more alive but also make water more lifelike.It also can give us a poetry feeling.The last skill used to deal with water is connect with ground water.It can prevent the problems caused by raise and fall down of water.Nature ground water give water to lake in gardens so the water will not change in any season.
The skills used to arrange also very common in Chinese gardens.The professor Mr.Zhao said that make stones seems lively.The stones near the water in the gardens always be made like floor.
Also the stones are used to build gardens are very important.The best stones are the stones come from Xi lake.This kind of stones have many holes in it and it special outline can give people many space to immagine.
The Chinese gardens use stones and water to create represents natural culture in China.Also it shows the wisdom of China.
If you have time, how about go out to have a meal in a snowy winter day.
