Ji Cheng
Ji Cheng (计成) was born in 1582, tenth year of the reign of Wanli, in the city of Tongli (Wujiang, Suzhou). He probably died in 1642.
The gardens which it designed under the Dynastie Ming belong to the historical references on the matter. In its youth Ji Cheng made itself famous as a painter of landscape and an originator of private gardens. It drew in particular its inspiration in paintings of Guan Tong (关仝) and Jing Hao (荆浩).
There designed many gardens deprived in the South of China and consigned its experiment at the end of its life in a work remained famous: Yuan Ye (园冶), treats it garden (1631). It is about the first monogram devoted to the architecture of the gardens.
It would have had this sentence in connection with the Chinese gardens: Although all this is only one human creation, it can appear work of the Sky .
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