Ming people lived in their houses and gardens, creating and enjoying their life of the living-room in these spaces. The house was Ming people'sspace for daily life and self-amusement; the garden was the space for sharing joy and recreating with their friends. In general, it was seldom that their living in the houses and gardens was combined together by them. Therefore, they did not often live in their gardens, even had never lived there all their life, or transferred their gardens to others after the gardens had been built up. Although Ming persons thought that establishing gardens might result in bankruptcy, lots of them still established their gardens. The historical evolution of Ming people's life of the living-room can be divided into four periods, and each one of them had its characteristic that just reflected the tracks of changes of social life in Ming Dynasty.
