In the early Western Han Dynasty, there was a method of building mountains by stacking stones in China. After the development of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the skill of stacking stones became more and more exquisite and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Rock is of great artistic value because of its beautiful rhythm, artistic conception and form, and is called "three-dimensional painting and silent poem". Rocks can not only divide the garden space, but also increase the quiet atmosphere in the courtyard and reduce dust and temperature, which is of vital significance in the traditional gardening in China. There is even a saying that there is no garden without stones. In the classical gardens of China, whether it is the magnificent northern royal garden or the fresh, beautiful and elegant private garden in the south of the Yangtze River, there are beautiful landscapes combining rocks and plants.

To build a mountain by stacking stones must be integrated with the surrounding environment. The position, size and height of the mountain should be determined before the plant configuration. The flowers and trees should be selected with few but fine flowers and trees, with high and low levels and distinct levels. For example, in the lion forest in Suzhou classical gardens, the rockery area in the east is dominated by cypress and white pine, while the mountains in the west and south are dominated by plum, bamboo and ginkgo, with flowers and trees dotted in between. In particular, a 600-year-old ginkgo tree in the mountains, with thick trunk and intertwined in stone crevices, has become a beautiful scenery in the lion forest, and deserves to be regarded as a model of the combination of classical garden plants and rocks in China. It is an important manifestation of the combination of plants and rocks to create a garden artistic conception that returns to nature and natural wildness in the garden. At the same time, the configuration with rocks as the main component and plants as the auxiliary component is also common in China classical gardens, such as the Yunding Peak in Suzhou Lingering Garden, which is famous for its thinness, wrinkles, leakage and permeability, surrounded by shrubs such as plantain, pomegranate, Jian Sacrifice and Nandian Bamboo. The low grass flowers planted before will not block the sight of tourists, but you can see the top of the lake towering into the sky, stretching like a crown, delicate and delicate. Let's say Guan Yun is more outstanding than others. Against these green backgrounds and bright warm colors, it has become a symbol of staying in the garden with these plants.

3. Definition of rock and plant landscape.

Stone landscaping, commonly known as "rockery", is in the traditional gardening art in China! It embodies the artistic creation of the gardener. The landscape architect's method is based on nature, which has both the form and spirit of natural rocks and the function of lyricism, such as "the beauty of mountains and the sense of stones are full" mentioned in "Gardening and Metallurgy"

Therefore, it can be understood that rock landscaping refers to the way to create natural mountains and beautiful stone landscapes that are more in line with people's aesthetic needs by referring to the principles of landscape poetry and painting in China and by processing and stacking materials such as soil and stone.

There are many kinds of stones to choose from in the garden rock landscape, mainly Taihu stone, Huangshi and quartz stone, as well as Kunshan stone, Lingbi stone, scattered stone, Jinchuan stone and bamboo stalactite. As far as the traditional stone selection standard is concerned, it pursues transparency, leakage, thinness, wrinkles, ugliness and transparency, that is, porosity is fine and leakage, that is, there are potholes, rich contours and thinness, that is, slender and slim, stand out from the crowd and wrinkle lonely! That is, the stone peak with clear texture, ups and downs, and differentiation and ugliness is quite imposing, which can create a rich and simple artistic conception and make people daydream. The choice of stone materials in modern gardens broadens our thinking. The choice of stone materials for landscaping should be based on local materials. The stone with the most local characteristics is also the most desirable. In addition to natural rocks, cement, steel bars and other materials, it is also used to build modern garden rock landscape. In addition, the selection of stones should be based on their characteristics. When building rockeries, we should try our best to make full use of various physical properties such as color, shape and hardness of different stones, accurately grasp the environment for placing stones, and proceed from the whole! Less wins more, so that rocks and the environment are integrated into one, forming the beauty of natural harmony.