About semantics of the word "yuan" - garden [Sad 花园 Huāyuán - Chinese] compared with historical anthropogenic landscapes of Central Asia
The origin of the word "yuan" (garden) is considered in comparison with the development of historical man-made gardens. We believe that the word "yuan" had the following meanings: "mound", "embankment", "surname", which is evidence of the historical process of formation of some types of landscape gardening, such as mounds and various types of stone structures, visually similar to some elements late forms of landscape art in China.