Both Huizhou Gardens for businessmen and Suzhou Gardens for intellectuals are of private Gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. They share similarities in their building elements due to the position factor,cultural origin and communication, as well as Huizhou businessmen's activities.Thanks to different geographic environment and philosophy of gardening, especially different owners of gardens, Huizhou Gardens for businessmen and Suzhou Gardens for intellectuals have fundamental differences. There are some othernesses between Gardens which businessmen build in their ancestral homes in Huizhou and Gardens which businessmen make their home in Huizhou, by different purposes and mood of building gardens. Huizhou Gardens emphasize on that they settle for masters'daily life and social intercourse, the common customs desirability of heightening status, splurging their fortune, taking care of their natural span of life. On the other hand, Suzhou Gardens for intellectuals attach importance to satisfy owners'psychic demand, to pursue elegance, to express their mood of discontentment to the actuality and of turning towards to mountain forests in the city.The author has arrived at a conclusion by comparison of effect factors and of gardening elements: Huizhou Gardens (businessmen build in their ancestral homes in Huizhou) bring nature into man-made landscape, forming regularity beauty, on the other hand, Yangzhou Gardens (businessmen make their home in Huizhou) take man-made landscape into natural landscape, then, Suzhou Gardens spurn man-made landscape completely, and syncretize nature into city. They are belong to mountain forests in the city. |