It was a phenomenon that the literati garden began to flourish in the sixteenth century when Chinese Confucians reached the peak of artistic creation. Gardens at that time were simple and natural in style, which reflected typical Ming literatis thoughts more clearly. Although perhaps no Ming gardens have survived, we could depend on paintings that record them. A good case is the album of Zhuozhengyuan Garden painted by Wen Zhengming in 1533. I divided the thirty-one sceneries in the album into five thematic archetypes- "Concentrating in Reading and Writing", "Merging Self with Trees and...
It was a phenomenon that the literati garden began to flourish in the sixteenth century when Chinese Confucians reached the peak of artistic creation....
