【正确答案】The Chinese garden has witnessed 3,000 years of evolution and become a unique landscape. It includes not only the large gardens constructed as entertainment venues for theroyal family, but also the private gardens built as secluded retreats for scholars, merchants and retired government officials. These gardens have constituted a miniature designed to express the harmonious relationship between man and nature. A typical Chinese garden is surrounded by walls and consists of buildings linked by trails and corridors, with ponds, rockworks, trees and flowers scattered in it.