Abstract: This article examines the “Jiang jiu Garden” , an “illusionary” garden of the famous seventeenth-century scholar Huang Zhouxing. The author analyses the view of the garden and the main events in the life of the owner. The article both explains the features of the garden itself as well as the special cooperation between “garden” and  “person”, and elucidates some typical social characteristics and popular scholar culture in this special historical period, such as strength of Mngloyalist ideology, reclusive herm it mentality, opera and the expansion of legendary literary forms. All of these aspects of literati culture were closely linked to the flourishing of the garden at that time.