A Chinese scholar’s garden
A walled garden after the gardens of Suzhou and Ji Cheng’s Yuanye (1631): a pond with shores of rockwork, Taihu stones, a pavilion on a rockery, a zigzag bridge, a covered walkway along the wall, a hall facing the water, and white walls with a moon gate and lattice windows.
The rules it illustrates
Borrowed scenery. Draw into the garden the views beyond its walls: a distant hill, a neighbour’s trees, a temple roof, the sky above and the water below, and the changes of the seasons. Adapt the design to the site and borrow from what lies round it.
Rocks as mountains. Make mountains of piled rock, and choose single rocks for their forms: the limestones of Lake Tai, eroded by water into holes, hollows and folds, are the finest; set them up like peaks, singly or in groups, against white walls or by water.
Where it appears in the book
In the styles Chinese garden.
In the chapters Gardens and Landscape.