Characteristics of ancient buildings in Jiangnan
The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the integration period of China's garden architecture. During this period, feudal literati not only built large-scale royal gardens, but also built a large number of home gardens with mountains and rivers as the backbone and interesting mountains and forests as the content to meet the needs of daily gatherings, leisure, banquets and living. The private gardens of feudal literati were mostly built in cities or suburbs, which were associated with houses. In a small area, the pursuit of space art changes, elegant and exquisite style, to achieve the artistic conception of seeking interest in the middle, and to meet the requirements of appreciation. Home gardens are mostly "urban forests", with many pavilions and trees. In terms of quantity, it is almost all over the country, and its three relatively concentrated places are Beijing in the north and Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing in the south.