Abstract:Ou Yangxiu became attached to the gardens when he was young. Being officials for forty years,Ou Yangxiu had built several gardens and written more than twenty essays and over a hundred of poetry about gardens and pavilions wherever he went. The Peonies in Luoyang is the earliest article about peonies up to now,which provides a valuable historical record for the descendants to study the ancient gardens. Ou Yangxiu’s garden activities and essays are closely related to his ups and downs in officialdom as well as his literary creation. Ou Yangxiu loved the gardens deeply and broadened the garden aesthetic view. His view of gardens is to keep them natual,comfortable,and not to be confined to forms and enslaved to materials as well,which has not only enlightened the descendants’aesthetic thinking about “materials”, but also injected fresh blood into garden theories. Ou Yangxiu promoted the development of gardens and made great contributions to the prosperity and popularization of gardens.