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Guest ArtistLast Monday we listened to a wonderful speech from Mr. Zhao. He told us a lot about the knowledge of gardens and we learned a lot from him.First he told us what the garden was: Gardens are the type of buildings. In China we have many types of gardens, such as Su Zhou garden, Forbidden City and so on.The gardens are places to change the natural physiognomy for people to appreciate. These places can provide people for living, wandering, playing and so on. We know gardens are very beautiful places to visit because there are many trees, water ponds,flowers, bridges,rockeries. And you can also see many traditional architectures from ancient China. Gardens have a very long history. They had appeared before West Han dynasty.The earliest garden in China is”围”,and it is the place to give shelter place.But until Wei,Jin and Nan Bei dynasties, they became neck and neck with royal gardens. The royal gardens have not only the general features but also the unique thoughts of designings. In Ming and Qing dynasties,the private gardens had been popular throughout China.Second,he gave us a picture of pictograph which was written in modern Chinese character”园”.This character has 4 parts:one is soil(土),it means the changes of the physiognomy.One is well(井),it means one well.One is “V”,it means the trees.And the last one is a big”口”,it means the border. In the garden there are many water ponds,when they are interconnected the water is living.If there is only one water pond,it becomes dead water.So the best way to enlive the water in the gardens is to keep more fishes in the water and the water will flow more.Last,to make the gardens more beautiful you can also put many stones,plant different trees and build rockeries in the gardens..From this lesson we have learned a lot about the gardens,and I think this lesson is of useful knowledge for us.It is also good for us to rise our literary expression,so some days later I will travel one of the greatest Chinese gardens,in this way I can have more experience.