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Ji Cheng
Ming garden designer styled Wufou and called Fou Daoren, from Wujiang, author of the three-chapter Yuanye, the earliest known treatise on garden making.
A stone arch bridge is being built across a river gorge, with wooden centering under the arch and bamboo scaffolding around the piers; many small workers haul stone blocks up a ramp with ropes and pulleys, and blocks and logs lie in the foreground below a distant city wall.
Also known as Zi Wufou · Hao Fou Daoren
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Ji Cheng, styled Wufou and called Fou Daoren, was a garden designer of the Ming from Wujiang, born in 1582 and died around 1642. He was known for painting in his youth and settled in Zhenjiang in middle age. Gardens recorded as his work include the Five Mu Garden at Changzhou, the Wu Garden at Yizheng and the Shadow Garden at Yangzhou. His three-chapter Yuanye, written in the Chongzhen era, is the earliest known treatise on garden making, and contains the line that a garden, though made by people, should look as if it came from heaven.
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