Ji Cheng 计成
Ji Cheng 计成 (1582-1642) was born in the Ming Wanli Reign 10th year (1582) in Tong Li township, Wujiang county, Suzhou. He died probably in 1642. Ji Cheng was a Ming dynasty garden designer. The gardens he conceived under the Ming dynasty Ming are historic references.
As a youth, Ji Cheng made a name for himself as a landscape painter and private garden designer. He drew in particular his inspiration from the paintings of Guan Tong (关仝) and Jin Hau (荆浩).
He designed many private gardens in Southern China and recorded his life experiences at the end of his life in a work remained famous: Yuan Ye (园冶), The Craft of Gardens, 1631. It was the first monogram dedicated to garden architecture in the world. Ji Cheng's thirty-five room former residence at Hueichuan Bridge, Tong Li, is now a tourist attraction.
Liu Lingering Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province is classified as one of the four more beautiful gardens of China. It dates from the Ming dynasty (1593). It has been restored and enlarged in 1876; it consists of four gardens and each of them has its own character.
The vegetation is particularly rich: laurels, peach tree, peonies, magnolias and especially a very beautiful garden of Bonsai and 3 gigantic Ginkgoes of more than 250 years each.
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