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terior wall and designed on a north-south axis, with an entrance gate and a gate to block
spirits that might try to enter the building. Behind the entry gates in palaces and residen-
tial buildings was a public hall and behind this were private living quarters built around a
central court with a garden. The garden area of upper-class gentry and imperial families
spawned an entire subgenre of 'recreational architecture', which included gardens, pavil-
ions, pagodas, ponds and bridges.
