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Since the Tang Dynasty, gardens have become a very important part of Chinese culture. By the Song Dynasty, gardens had an inseparable relationship with the lives of Song people. Although the rich and powerful can manage vast and magnificent landscapes, ordinary people and even poor families can also plant flowers and trees around their houses and arrange simple gardens with basins, mountains and basins. Various humanistic activities under such a living environment may be invisibly transformed by the landscape atmosphere, resulting in a profound impact in the cultural sense. This book is mainly based on the poetry of the Song Dynasty. Through the compilation, interpretation and analysis of the poetry and texts, as well as the descriptions of other historical records, topographies and notes, as well as the author's personal experience of living in the mountains and gardening, it explores the gardens of the Song Dynasty - an artistic achievement that reached its peak in the history of Chinese gardens, as well as the content and cultural implications of garden life.