Table 1 Classification table of Jiangnan gardens

1

A single attached courtyard of a building

(0, 500)

Courtyard 14 of Diguan

2

A community composed of multiple individual buildings, surrounded by multiple courtyards

[500, 2500)

Gaoyi Garden of Tianping Mountain

3

Mainly consisting of orderly and regular architectural courtyards

[2500, 7200)

Wangshi Garden

4

The orderliness of the buildings diminishes, and the garden’s spatial layout assumes a free and irregular form

[7200, 20,000)

Central Humble Administrator’s Garden

5

Based on natural landscapes, the arrangement of buildings is casually dispersed

[20000, + ∞)

Lingyin Temple