Emperor Jianwen
The lakes and waterside pavilions in Chinese gardens were also influenced by another classic of Chinese literature, the "Shishuo Xinyu" by Liu Yiqing (403–444), who described the promenades of the Emperor Jianwen of Jin along the banks of the Hao and the Pu River, in the Garden of the Splendid Forest (Hualin yuan). Many gardens, particularly in the gardens of Jiangnan and the imperial gardens of northern China, have features and names taken from this work.