One garden which significantly influenced the art of garden construction was the Shanglin Yuan (Higher Woods hunting park) of the Han Dynasty. 'Shang' means high, but also emperor.
 The power of the Han Dynasty and its garden construction both reached their peak during the reign of the emperor Han Wu (140 BC-87 BC).

  The Shanglin Yuan garden was surrounded by a wall of approximately 150 kilometers in length. The eight largest rivers of central Shaanxi all run through the garden. The Kunming Pond alone covered an area of some 150 hectares itself. See cedargallery.nl.

  A stamp with a detail of the painting "Along the River During Qingming Festival", the 12th century original by Zhang Zeduan.

  Part of the scroll. The entire scroll is 24.8 cm wide, 528.7 cm long.
  See the page about verse 36, where this 'Garden of Pure Brightness' is mentioned.

  The poem was composed by Sima Xiangru in 137 BCE.
  These poems are a hybrid of prose and rhymed verse.
(See 'some landscapes blogspot')

  There is a magnificent Ming Dynasty scroll attributed to Qiu Ying (c. 1494-1552) which illustrates the poem.
  See the page about verse 38, where this garden is mentioned.