设计者和匠师们因地制宜,自出心裁,修建成功的园林当然各各不同。可是苏州各个园林在不同之中有个共同点,似乎设计者和匠师们一致追求的是:务必使游览者无论站在哪个点上,眼前总是一幅完美的图画。为了达到这个目的,他们讲究亭台轩榭的布局,讲究假山池沼的配合,讲究花草树木的映衬,讲究近景远景的层次。总之,一切都要为构成完美的图画而存在,决不容许有欠美伤美的败笔。
However, gardens with different features share a similarity, which is the designers and craftsmen seem to be consistent in their pursuit of making sure that travelers, no matter where they are in the garden, be always provided with a perfect painting before their eyes. To achieve this goal, they pay great attention to the layout of buildings such as pavilions and windowed verandas, the arrangement of rockeries and ponds, the matching of different plants, and the patterning of long shots and close-ups. In a word, all elements work together to form an ideal picture and no flaw is allowed.