Ji Cheng
Male, Deceased Person
1582 – 1642
Who was Ji Cheng?
Ji Cheng was a Ming dynasty garden designer.
Ji Cheng was born in the Ming Wanli Reign 10th year in Tong Li township, Wujiang county, Suzhou.
As a youth, Ji Cheng made a name for himself as a landscape painter and private garden designer, he worshipped two North Song painters: Guan Tong and Jing Hao
During his lifetime, he designed numerous private gardens in Southern China. In his late years, he summarized his lifetime experience into a monograph on landscape design:, Yuanye: The Craft of Gardens, 1631.
Ji Cheng's Yuanye, is the first monograph dedicated to garden architecture in the world. His work has been translated into many languages.
Ji Cheng's thirty-five room former residence at Hueichuan Bridge, Tong Li, is now a tourist attraction.
"The garden is created by the human hand, but should appear as if created by heaven."
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