The reading of Alison Hardie’s text the Biography of Zhang Nanyuan

Rather than previous garden designs prior to the late 16^th Century and their use of the monumental style of large scale rockery , which proved impractical for the shipping and transport of large scale rocks to represent high mountains with hovering buildings and bridges, the style of a lighter style was created which became the realisation of there being no point to recreate nature in building tall mountains, rather by the careful positioning of less imposing pavilions and bridges and rockery which peered over the tops of lowered walls suggested an immensity of scale to suggest large mountains in the distance, with the utilisation of scaled bridges and buildings to recreate an atmosphere of a large scaled landscape on the small sight. This was the sight in which were appreciated in the first few gardens of our visit, such as Yi Yuan compared the large scale at Huanxiu ShanZhuang which utilised an immensity of scale.

Yi yuan, miniaturised small pavilion, magnifying the scale of the rockery mountains.

Despite the large scale of the rockery the boundary walls of the garden juxtapose this significance of scale .