Huntington Library's Chinese garden

The placid garden links botany with poetry and a scattered ethnic community with the elegant grandeur of its ancient civilization. Hand-carved stone bridges, wooden pavilions and stone terraces feature China’s centuries-old techniques of master craftsmanship. The garden's name was inspired in part by a rhapsodic paean to a Chinese river goddess by a poet, Cao Zhi, nearly 2,000 years ago.