《中国推介·中国百科》之中国园林百科 China Recommendation·China Encyclopedia：Classical Chinese Garden

If there is any place that can express the dream of the Oriental, that must be the classical Chinese garden. “Up above there is paradise, down here there are Suzhou and Hangzhou”. The classical Chinese garden is praised as paradise. Due to different understandings in paradise among ethnic groups, gardens with diverse styles in the world have appeared. Because of the theory that man is an integral part of nature, the classical Chinese garden is unique in the whole world.
如果有什么地方能表达东方人的理想梦境，那一定是中国园林。“上有天堂，下有苏杭”，园林被誉为“人间天堂”。因各民族对天堂理解不同， 而形成了世界园林风格的差异。中国园林因“天人合一”的灵魂思想，在全世界独树一帜。