The Chinese garden bring inspiration and self-knowledge and evokes the natural world in microcosm with rocks, plants and water arranged in clever ways lead one from a unique vantage point to another view from a different prospective.

Chinese saying, "He who plants a garden plants happiness." Gardens are important to the Japanese and Chinese as natural places of serene, quiet beauty an intensely spiritual place, with essential elements of water, plants, stones, waterfalls, trees and bridges.

Everything in the Garden has meaning; nothing is accidental. Lanterns, bridges, figures, all in harmony with living occupants the even the clothes are all are part of environment of the garden.

The Chinese term for landscape, "shan shui" means "mountains and water" and no garden is without a lake or pool. This body of water is its spiritual heart of the garden. A pavilion, or "ting", (the resting place) is essential to contemplate nature, Rocks, suggest rugged cliffs and soaring mountains, bamboo grace and flexibility, provided a place to meditate, play music or arts, paint, write, socialize, and disciplines both mind and body.