There are great difference between Chinese and Western classical garden building.This ar-title mainly analyses their own features through the types, locations, functions, the quantity and den-sity in the garden, creators, materials, structure, form, size, color, texture, the source and the posi-tion and so on.Then the reasons for the differences are explored from the aesthetic consciousness, theway of thinking and the living environment.In the end, the essence of the differences between Chi-nese and western classical garden building is put forward-separate natural environment.