Natural Beauty

China classical garden is the comprehensive art of ancient building and horticulture which pays much attention to combine with the natural beauty; According to the nature of gardens, There are three gardening types: Imperial Garden, Private Garden and Temple Garden. And Temple Garden occupies an important position. The temple garden is mainly refers to the buddhist temple and Taoist temple's subsidiary gardens also including the internal courtyard and peripheral zone of environment; Besides, it also refers to attached garden of groups buildings serving for religion belief and consciousness worship. The appearing of temple garden can trace back to the period when the Buddhism entered into China at two Han Dynasties. And then, in the progress of buddhistic chinization, Buddhist integrated the Confucianism and Taoists which influenced. At first, Buddhist temple was for Buddha. When the time arrived Wei and Jin Dynasties, To satisfy the shaman and donor's residence and amusement, gardens were appearing at beside and behind temples. Then captures the Tang and Song satisfied with private gardens and temple gardens Ming Royal exception processes.In Ming Dynasty, Imperial temples not only had religious nature and imperial garden beauty style, but also had natural beauty style. In gardens, there were layered stones and clear water, beautiful flowers and dense trees even autographs. All of those showed the appreciation tendency combined to nature. Natural environment conjoins architectures with imperial thought and religious quality which cultivated people's temperament. The culture, history information and values made people show special preference to the imperial temples. China temple garden's development venation demonstrates different period appreciation style distingctly containing values and unique esthetic pasychology and way. They were connected to era characteristic and sediment of history culture. So Imperial temple garden's nature beauty can annotate above opinion deeply.