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  2. List of Chinese gardens - Wikipedia

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    The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden 寄興園 in Staten Island, New York; Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon; Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, Chinese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; Seattle Chinese Garden in Seattle, Washington; The Astor Court in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...

  3. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Name Description Symbolism Images Butterflies: Butterfly/ butterflies A common motif used in Chinese embroidery and in Chinaware. [12] The butterfly is a symbol of joy and summer. [12] It also implies long life, beauty and elegance. [6] Pair of butterflies Pair of butterflies embroidered on clothing strengthens the energy of love. [6]

  4. Chinese garden - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of World Heritage Sites in China - Wikipedia

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    A group of private gardens that were developed from the 11th to 19th centuries. Each garden in Suzhou showcases the classic elements of Chinese garden art, including water features, rockeries, pavilions, bridges, and meticulously arranged plants, designed to create harmonious and miniature landscapes that reflect the natural world.

  6. Classical Gardens of Suzhou - Wikipedia

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    Spanning a period of almost one thousand years, from the Northern Song to the late Qing dynasties (11th-19th century), these gardens, most of them built by scholars, standardized many of the key features of classical Chinese garden design with constructed landscapes mimicking natural scenery of rocks, hills and rivers with strategically located ...

  7. Category:Chinese inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Chinese inscriptions" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.

  8. Chinese pavilion - Wikipedia

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    The first use of the Chinese character for pavilion dates to the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 BCE) and the Warring States period (403–221 BCE). During the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE) they were used as watchtowers and local government buildings. These multi-story constructions had at least one floor without surrounding walls to allow ...

  9. Lingnan garden - Wikipedia

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    Lingnan garden consists of several substyles, such as royal gardens, private gardens, and public gardens. A good example of royal Lingnan garden is Guangzhou's Gauyiu Garden [zh; zh-yue] (Jyutping: Gau 2 jiu 6 jyun 4; Traditional Chinese: 九曜園, literally "garden of nine glories"), built by Lau Yan, the first king of the Southern Han dynasty. [4]

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