Ji Cheng

Details

Nationality

Chinese

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

Lived experienceObservation

Subject

More than human

Degree of codification

Pattern based

Mode of transmission

ApprenticeshipText drawing

Knowledge type

Relational embodied

Epistemic cluster

East asian

Notes

[DRAFT] Late Ming-dynasty Chinese painter and garden designer, author of the 'Yuanye' (The Craft of Gardens, c.1631), the earliest known monograph on garden design in the Chinese tradition. The treatise codifies principles of siting, rockwork and the integration of architecture with nature, including the concept of 'jie jing' (borrowing scenery). Death year undocumented.

Connections

• proposed The Chinese Garden as Cosmology

Sources

1. Ji Cheng (trans. Alison Hardie). The Craft of Gardens (Yuanye). Yale University Press (trans. ed.), 1631.
2. Wikipedia. Ji Cheng (Ming dynasty). Wikipedia, 2024.