The Shao Yuan Xiu Xi Tu: Literati Celebrating Spring in the Garden of a Spoonful of Water
Mi Wanzhong (1570-1628), the renowned late Ming court calligraphy, owned and designed a legendary little garden known as the Shao Yuan (Garden of a Spoonful of Water). He later painted a hand scroll (295 cm X 29.4 cm) of this innovative garden that drew the late Ming emperors to the Haidian district where they built their imperial summer palaces right next to the Shao Yuan. The original location of the Shao Yuan is in the southwest corner of today’s Peking University campus.
