In the long historical process, the gardens in China have been constantly improving themselves, and only some elements of the gardens, such as plants and animals, have been influenced by foreign garden culture, thus showing a stable, slow and continuous historical evolution style.
1. The construction of gardens in China began in Shang and Yin Dynasties, when slave society and economy were quite developed, and emperor hunting was the mainstream period.
2. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was an important turning point in the history of ancient gardening in China, and it was also the foundation stone laying period. Natural landscape gardens with the theme of reappearing natural landscape appeared, which laid the foundation for the artistic style in the historical development of China landscape gardens in the future.
3. The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties witnessed the all-round development of China gardens. With the prosperity of art in Tang and Song Dynasties and the popularity of literati painters depicting natural scenery, gardening art tends to pursue simple natural beauty and develop into the stage of poetic artistic conception creation.
4. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the last prosperous period of ancient gardens in China, with the peak of gardening activities and more developed skills in garden art.