Suzhou is also called the city of gardens because there are 60 plus gardens around Suzhou, nine of which has been inscribed world cultural heritage sites. Master-of-Nets Garden is a good example to express more meaningful in very limited space.

Master-of-Nets Garden was named as the hall of 10000 volumes just becase the first owner of the garden collected over ten thousands books at home. In fact, every owner of the gardens were rich at education, culture and history, otherwise, it is hard to imagine for them to build so wonderful gardens.

General speaking, the owners of one garden were often transformed, but each of them would put their own stories into the buildings such as designing, caving, trees and so forth.

The owners of the gardens could enjoy beautiful sceneries of four seasons while they needn't go out of their homes. They designed some special scenes to imply different seasons. For example, the blossoming plum means the winter coming.

The stones are often seen in the gardens. What's more, the artisans thought the stones liked the bones of someone's body.

Definitely, the gardens can't lack water. The water is just like the blood of someone's body and most of the buildings are built around the ponds in Suzhou Gardens.

The fish or lotus in the water make the gardens more vivid and colorful.

The study room must be one of the most important building in the gardens. The owners of the gardens paid more attentions on their studying and their children's education.

More and more people like the living styles in Suzhou classical Gardens, so many Suzhou style gardens have been built in other countries. For instant, Astor Court in Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, is one copy of the peony study in Master-of-Nets Garden.