Ji Cheng
Ji Ji Cheng (1582 – c. 1642) was a Ming dynasty garden designer. Ji Cheng was born in the 10th year of the reign of the Wanli Emperor (1582) in Tongli, Wujiang County, Jiangsu province.
Also recorded as Cheng Ji · Wufou · Kai Shing
Ji Cheng
- Born
- 1582 · Wujiang District.
- Died
- 1642
- Nationality
- Ming dynasty
- Occupation
- garden designer · painter · architect · writer
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Ji Ji Cheng (1582 – c. 1642) was a Ming dynasty garden designer. Ji Cheng was born in the 10th year of the reign of the Wanli Emperor (1582) in Tongli, Wujiang County, Jiangsu province.
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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: (园冶), Yuanye: The Craft of Gardens, 1631. Yuanye (园冶), is the first monograph dedicated to garden architecture in the world. His work has been translated into many languages. Thirty-five room former residence at Hueichuan Bridge, Tongli, 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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1582
Ji Cheng was born in 1582 at Wujiang District.
1642
Ji Cheng died in 1642.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1055750630, Ji, Cheng.
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Cheng Ji, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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Naming and authority record. Those registers additionally record the forms Ji Cheng, 计, 成, Ji, Wupi, 計, 成, Cheng, Ji, 计成, Chi, Ch'eng and Ji, Wufou.
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