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In late imperial period, the commerce and economy of China greatly advanced to cause a lot of silver of the world to be concentrated in the cities such as Su zhou(蘇州) or Hang zhou(杭州) etc. The concentration of silver means the concentration of wealth, therefore a considerable number of commercial capitalist appeared to offer economical backing for Gentry(紳士) who a lot of them are financially feeble. Based on such economical backing, Gentry(紳士) created cultural fashion and discourse to strengthen market economy system in which culture is consumed as merchandise. This study tried to look over ideas and infoes for residing culture of Gentry(紳士) class through 《Xian qing ou ji(閑情偶寄)》 of Li yu(李漁). consists of five parts, namely a house and a room(房舍), a window and a lattice(窗欄), a wall and fence(牆壁), a tablet(聯匾), a stone and rocks(山石). According to 《Xian qing ou ji(閑情偶寄)》, Most important factors to build house and garden are the creative concepts and elegant mood. Criticizing luxurious trends at that times, Li yu(李漁) insisted that those purposes should be realized by thrift method. But the new culture discourse of Gentry(紳士) class caused the result that led society to extravagant trends, promoting commercial fashion and consumption regardless of their original purpose. At that time, Gentry(紳士) class really looked to be taken to a ghost named a kind of falsehood consciousness(Falsches Bewubtsein). Meanwhile, 《Xian qing ou ji(閑情偶寄)》 perhaps was transmitted to Korea of Cho sun(朝鮮) dynasty at the same age with China of late imperial period. Gentry(紳士) class of Cho sun(朝鮮) dynasty wished to pursue the realization of elegance in housing and gardening. But they were more practical, more realistic and more specific than those of China. This study has insufficient bibliography proofs about 《Xian qing ou ji(閑情偶寄)》's transmission to Korea and text of analysis is limited 《Xian qing ou ji(閑情偶寄)》 of Li yu(李漁). This study is just a case analysis. So more studies need to be followed.