Wen Zhenheng (Chinese: 文震亨; pinyin: Wén Zhènhēng; Wade–Giles: Wen Chen-heng, 1585–1645) was a Ming dynasty scholar, painter, landscape garden designer, and great grandson of Wen Zhengming, a famous Ming dynasty painter.
Wen was born in Suzhou in 1585. In 1621, he graduated from the Imperial Academy, obtained the lowest degree of zhusheng. In 1637, Wen was the assistant magistrate of Longzhou county in the Shanxi prefecture. On the same year, he was appointed Secretariat Drafter[1] by Chongzhen Emperor.[2] Wen Zhenheng was famous for his calligraphy, poetry and essays. He was also an expert in landscape garden design, the Sweetgrass Garden he built in Suzhou was famous at his time.
^Craig Clunas (2004). Superfluous Things, Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2820-8. Clunas argues for a composition date of 1616-20. For his discussion of the matter, see p. 27
^Wen Zhenheng (2005). 长物志图说 Zhang Wu Zhi Tu Shuo (Treatise on Superfluous Things Pictorial ed.). Shandong Pictorial Publishing House. ISBN 7-80603-779-9.
of Wen Gui). His great-grandson, WenZhenheng, a noted garden designer, rebuilt the Garden of Cultivation in Suzhou. His great-granddaughter, Wen Shu...
ceramics excited much scorn on the part of literati scholars (such as WenZhenheng, Tu Long, and Gao Lian, who is cited below); these men fancied themselves...
great-grandson of the very famous Ming artist, Wen Zhengming (1470–1559), and also the elder brother of WenZhenheng (1585–1645), the latter of which was the...
that every Chinese home possessed. However, one Confucian polemicist, WenZhenheng (1585–1645), specifically forbade the use of Dehua wares for religious...
the widely popular Treatise on Superfluous Things (Zhang wu zhi) of WenZhenheng (1585-1645). Another one of these works, the Treatise on Tea (茶疏 Chashu)...
Jie Cha Ji), ca 1608. Feng Shike (冯时可): Tea Record (茶录 Cha Lu), 1609. WenZhenheng (文震亨): Treatise on Superfluous Things/ Incense and Tea (长物志 Zhang Wu...
acknowledged as the greatest essayist of the Ming dynasty. WenZhenheng, the great-grandson of Wen Zhengming, wrote a classic on garden architecture and interior...
more widely cited in later collections, and were a primary source for WenZhenheng's Treatise of Superfluous Things. Wu Cuncun (2004). Homoerotic Sensibilities...
smaller rockery. This area is the herb (sweet grass) garden added by WenZhenheng. It is meant to evoke his principal of "to leave residents free from...
more widely cited in later collections, and were a primary source for WenZhenheng's Treatise of Superfluous Things. CHOY, Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric...
Giuseppe Vermiglio, Caravaggisti painter from Northern Italy (died 1635) WenZhenheng, Chinese Ming dynasty scholar, painter, and landscape garden designer...
engraver (born 1573) Francisco Varela, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1580) WenZhenheng, Chinese Ming dynasty scholar, painter, and landscape garden designer...
Flower, and Eternal Spring Silver Sprout. The Ming dynasty scholar WenZhenheng's encyclopedic book Zhǎng Wù Zhì (simplified Chinese: 长物志; traditional...
Jin and Yuan dynasties, alongside Zhang Congzheng, Li Dongyuan, and Zhu Zhenheng. Hsu 2001, p. 149. Unschuld 1985, pp. 172–173. Chace 2022, p. 149. Chace...
History 960-1665 (1999) "The Physician as Philosopher of the Way: Zhu Zhenheng (1282–1358)" (2006) Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese...
of the Jin-Yuan period, alongside Li Dongyuan [zh], Liu Wansu, and Zhu Zhenheng. However, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the "Four Great Masters"...
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