Ji Cheng

Ji Cheng 计成(1582–1642 ?)

Ji Cheng 计成, Ming dynasty garden designer, born in Ming Wanli Reign 10th year (1582 ) in Tongli township, Wujiang county, Suzhou; died ca 1642.

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关仝 and Jin Hau荆浩

During his life time, he designed numerous private gardens in Southern China. In his late years, he summarized his life time experience into a monograph on landscape design:园冶, Yuan Ye: The Craft of Gardens, 1631.

Ji Cheng's Yuan Ye园冶, is the first monograph dedicated to garden architecture in the world. His work has being translated into many languages.

Ji Cheng's 35 room former residence at Hueichuan Bridge, Tongli, is now a tourist attraction.

Reference

• Ji Cheng: Yuan Ye Tu Shuo, ed. Zhou Nong, Shandong Huabao Chubanshe, 2004,ISBN 7–80603–691–1

• Ji Cheng: Yuan Ye, ed. Wang Changmei, Golden Maple Publishing House. ISBN 957–763–133–9

Translations

• Ji Cheng: Craft of Gardens, Yale University Press,1988, Translated by Alison Hardie ISBN: 0300041829

• Yuanye, le traite du jardin,Ji Cheng, Traduit par Che Bing Chiu ISBN : 2910735133