Abstract:Chinese classical garden design teaching mode is the Chinese garden curriculum system in the core content, The "shape" and "meaning" in classical gardens combination has all ways been the core content in teaching, it's also more difficult to control in design by students. This paper takes a Song style classical garden design with calligraphy as the theme as an example. The inquiry teaching mode runs through the whole process of design, and repeats the key links of the design process. Starting from the conception, this paper analyzes the spatial pattern of the song style garden, and provides sufficient design basis for this topic. Taking the inheritance relationship and artistic style of the four calligraphers in Song Dynasty as clues, this paperdiscusses the translation methods and artistic conception expression in the landscape spatial form.