Here I present the General's Garden. This vignette is at Ching Dynasty, AD 1644~1917, more detail can be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Dynasty.
In that time, any Noble or Generals always have their own garden in their backyard. The typical garden will embrace small pool, stone bridge, gallery connected to the house, trees, bushes, stone pathway,and of course octogonal pavilion, the heart of the garden, which master enjoy to take in everything at a glance.
The garden can be considered as the important element in the sino-architecture (sino means chinese).