Abstract:Suiyuan is a famous garden of Nanjing in the Qing Dynasty. Starting from the owner of Suiyuan, Yuan Mei, this paper interprets the relevant garden records, Garden Poems, drawings, and other related documents and ancient maps, focusing on the phase of Suiyuan, this paper also analyzes the personality of Yuan Mei's “Good book, good tour, good friend, good repair house, good flower bamboo Spring Stone”, and studies the garden aesthetic thought in Yuan Mei's theory of “Nature and spirit”, iNCLUDING: 1) follow the nature, follow the borrowing; 2) not bound by tradition, Innovation; 3) livable, travel, material. The characteristics of site selection and spatial layout of Suiyuan are summarized as follows: 1) adapting to local conditions, 2) adapting to the situation, 3) adapting to water conditions, 3) living and swimming, and living at will.