Xu Garden is the western garden and form a pair with the easter garden. Xu Garden lies at No. 292, road Changjiang, City Nanjing. Currently it is connected with the heavenly king palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864) and the president’ residence in Nanjing. Xu Garden is the best-preserved south watery landscape in late Qing Dynasty and a masterpiece of southern watery landscape. Xu Garden once was served as the imperial garden for the son of emperor Zhu,di in Ming Dynasty. Later Xu Garden turned into the governmental garden for Qing Dynasty. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Nanjing as capital, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became one part of the palace of Heavenly king. After many renovations, Xu Garden became the history relics.

　　Xu Garden is famous for small size and covers area only 1.4 hectar. Xu Garden has the reality and fake scene mixingly with a clear layout. The garden covered mostly water which go through from south to north. The diameter of whole pond is around 1866 meters and covers half of area of the garden. In 1982, Xu Garden was listed as national key relics protection unit and national 4A tourist scene.

　　There is a 14.5-meter-long timber-mimic boat built by gray stones in the garden. Now it is the symbol of the garden. The Qianlong Emperor  used to call it "Bu Ji Zhou"or "unmoored boat." Xu Garden has an artificial hillock called "South Rockery," made of rocks resembling 12 Chinese zodiac animals. Among these hillock there is a Hexagonal Pavilion. From afar it looks like an overlapping of two pavilions, but a closer look reveals an integrated body. It was called "Mandarin Duck Pavilion," as mandarin ducks are known for appearing in pairs. "Tong Yin Guan" , or "Paulownia Melody House," is the largest building in the garden, built by paulownia timber. It was used as Zeng Guofan's reception hall. Several huge Chinese parasol trees are planted around the house. When rains fall on the trees, the mellifluous sounds resonate. Behind the house lies "North Rockery". There are caves inside the hillocks, and they are interconnected like a maze. Beside it is a stone tablet, on which the Daoguang Emperor 's handwriting "Heart Stamping Stony House" is engraved.