Abstract:Lingnan gardens are unique in Chinese gardens for their realistic and eclectic, delicate and beautiful qualities, and their gardening creations in different periods have both inheritance and innovation. Taking the creation of Lingnan Garden as an opportunity, combing through the existing examples of Lingnan Gardens in Guangfu, this paper finds that the style and form of Lingnan Gardens not only have a unified inheritance, but also have their own characteristics of the times in the four historical phases of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The design exploration of Lingnan Heyuan Garden in Beijiao, Shunde, takes “landscape, street and people” as the theme, follows the traditional landscape pattern of “north mountain and south water, negative yin and embracing yang”, and combines the Lingnan garden design vocabulary of the four historical phases in a single garden to create the “Six Scenes of Heyuan Garden", depicting the harmony between natural landscape and urban, and exploring the inheritance of the essence of Lingnan gardens and the innovation of design methods.
