Abstract: With the Qing emperors' southern tours,the famous ten scenes of West Lake in Hangzhou city were replicated gradually in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing,heralding the fashion of landscape miniaturization in the imperial garden. Based on the comparison of the ten scenes of West Lake in Hangzhou and in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing,the paper clarifies that the methods of reconstruction are "live imitation" and "knowing imitation",with the characteristics of size reduction,official practice,artistic conception,etc.