At this point the formation of the natural landscape garden, which is divided into literati gardens, royal gardens, temple gardens.

Researches show that familial temples and ancestral halls of local families were combined with folk temples or monasteries, the former and the latter powerfully backing each other.

Exempting from poll taxation was a kind of tax policy that prevailed only in middle period of Southern Song Dynasty, and levied tax on Buddhist monks and Taoist priests.