【正确答案】The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the Imperial Family, built for pleasure, and the private gardens created by scholars, merchants and former government officials, made for escaping from the outside world. They create an idealized miniature landscape, which is meant to express the harmony that should exist between man and nature. A typical Chinese garden is enclosed by walls and includes one or more ponds, rock works, trees and flowers, and an assortment of structures, connected by winding paths and zigzag galleries. Walking around in the garden, visitors can view a series of carefully composed scenes, unrolling like a scroll of landscape paintings.