Despite the growing popularity of Chinese gardens, few studies have explored Chinese garden tourism and the relationship between garden space and visitor behavior. Addressing this gap, this study examines the correlations between spatial attributes and visitor stay distribution in the Ningbo Tianyige Museum gardens. This study divided the garden space into twenty units across four types—water, architecture, veranda, and rockery—and identified spatial attributes using measurements and configurational calculations. Visitor stay data was comprised of 1061 cases with a stay interval of more than 30 s in three investigation periods. Results produced three primary findings. First, architecture and water spaces had the highest visitor stay density, followed by veranda space and then rockery space. Second, there is a correlation between visitor stay density and six spatial attributes: integration, choice, width, length, enclosure ratio, and seating. Third, although each type has distinctive attributes, they can be divided into two groups: (1) spacious and highly accessible open spaces (water and architecture types); (2) long narrow spaces with low accessibility and abundant seating facilities (veranda and rockery types). By exploring the relationship between Chinese gardens and modern tourism, this study provides valuable insights and suggestions for the planning and management of Chinese garden tourism.

This paper is a study of the seven libraries of Siku quanshu and Tianyige from the perspective of imitation of imperial gardens in Qing Dynasty. Firstly, this paper analyses Tianyige, the prototype of seven libraries, which is also the most ancient private library in China, and reveals the Tianyige’s basic situation, construction ideas, architectures and gardens. Secondly, this paper articulates the imitation of the seven libraries from the perspective of architectures and gardens with the characteristics of adapting to local conditions. Thirdly, this paper conducts the restoration research of three destroyed libraries in architectures and gardens combining the literature and relics for future research.