The title of the frog at the bottom of the well can directly make a guy like Yuantong who has always been known for his profound and extensive views on gardens go berserk. Even though he was a little unobtrusive when he was drunk, Ye Tao did have some foundation when he said this, and it was not without purpose.

In the original era, as an industrial designer who loved travel, architecture and photography, and had a very keen grasp of art and design elements, Ye Tao had a lot of work on gardens and architecture, and his privileged life allowed him to enjoy the gardens and palaces he liked when he traveled all over the world, and collected all kinds of materials to enrich his library, enrich his understanding of gardens and architecture, and enrich his grasp of the combination of architecture and nature. It is precisely because of that that that he already has a lot of experience in garden design and construction management at a young age, and the gardens and courtyards built in Yicheng are all classics.

And modern society likes to raise everything to the height of culture and understanding, from every detail, case study to thoroughness, digging to a thorough habit, but also so that Ye Tao has a very solid accumulation, so that his views on gardens beyond the era he is in now is not a little bit.

No matter what style of garden, it should be said that it comes from nature, and it is also the imitation and refinement of nature by human beings. For example, the rockery in the garden often imitates some of the most wonderful parts of the natural mountain forest, and the wonderful parts are refined and condensed together to form a whole. For example, the various water bodies excavated in the garden are the artistic summaries of rivers, lakes, streams, streams, springs and waterfalls in nature, and he also concentrates various wonderful parts of natural water bodies. The integration of architecture and nature, the interest of poetry and painting in the garden, and the artistic conception of the humanistic spirit, almost all of them can be studied separately, and even rockeries, stone pinnacles, waterscapes, plants, and buildings, etc., are all based on a large number of examples to form a comprehensive view, and extract the general laws and methods.

In this era, people in this era are not in a position to let themselves be in gardens in different locations, and let themselves see a variety of styles and designs with their own eyes. Not only because of the underdevelopment of transportation and information, but also because the most characteristic gardens are often isolated in a small circle. Those magnificent royal gardens, ordinary people have never had the opportunity to set foot in, if you want to enter those delicate and delicate private gardens, you must have a deep enough friendship with the owner. If you want to come to Yuantong, a monk who has seen a lot of gardens in Chunnanguo at most, he can only understand other situations through words and calligraphy and painting, and he has also spent a lot of time in the practice of garden creation, and the depth and breadth of his knowledge are limited. With Ye Tao's knowledge, it is really not an insult to say that Yuantong is a frog at the bottom of the well.

"Get a pen and paper!" Ye Tao commanded heartily at the little guy standing on the side.

The little guy was stunned, Mingyulou was just an occasion for feasting and drinking, and according to more modern terms, providing consumables needed for cultural activities was not within the scope of their services. Although Luo Qin and Song Yu have been arranging the drinking party in the Mingyu Building for a while, the paper and pen used by those literati to write poems and write what need to be recorded are all prepared by Luo Qin and Song Yu.

Lu Dan, who had been watching funny from the side, reacted much faster. is different from ordinary housekeepers, he was originally a member of the Danyang Gentleman Circle, in fact, as the young master of the Lu family, he also has an invitation, even if he comes as Ye Tao's housekeeper, no one cares about him. He is the only guy who has the status of "subordinate" among all the people present now. Lu Dan leaned out of the window and yelled at the guards downstairs who were marching and playing in a boring manner, "Bring up the box behind the car." ”

Without a word, the four guards easily carried a three-foot-square, rather large box to the middle of the reception hall. Inside the box is a folded and assembled multi-purpose workbench and two toolboxes. Even in this era, when conditions permit, Ye Tao implemented the concept of mobile office and designed this mobile suit. The folding and flattening workbench is laid flat and can easily install tools such as vices, and when installing, make the countertop tilt a little more according to another scale, and install clamps, which is a good drawing table. And the ruler carved with brass on the table is very useful in any form. The two tool boxes in the box, one containing all kinds of woodworking, metalworking, and other tools and measuring tools, while the other was filled with all kinds of the most sophisticated tools for engineering drawing of this era, as well as brushes, inks, and paints needed for writing and drawing. In this era, the development of pigments is still very insufficient, but in Ye Tao's toolbox, there are four sets of pigments for Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor, and gouache, each of which is standardized according to the standard color of 24 colors. This set of paints alone is enough to arouse a large number of people who have a strong interest in painting to chase after them.

Lu Dan's reaction made Ye Tao very satisfied. Ye Tao smiled and ordered, "Use my own paper." Then find someone to go back and get another tube. Lu Dan's eyes lit up, and he said yes, turned his head and asked a guard to do it. He himself, on the other hand, carefully took out of the box a long, wooden cylinder covered with waterproof cowhide, pulled out a piece of paper from it, carefully unfolded it, and clamped it onto the table. Then he took out a series of drawing tools, pulled over a table, and arranged them neatly before bowing down.

"Don't you dare to call a master when you build thirty gardens?" Ye Tao looked at Yuantong and said arrogantly: "I'll draw thirty gardens for you to see." ”

As soon as the words came out, the audience was in an uproar. Yuantong had an expression of disbelief on his face. But Ye Tao didn't hear it, took out a duckbill pen, dipped it in ink, picked up a heavy copper ruler, and began to draw a schematic diagram of the garden with a 45-degree overlook on the oblique side. This kind of schematic diagram that can not only show the macro plan, but also facilitate the display of details, Ye Tao came from the era, is often used in building books and design diagrams, and Ye Tao is also familiar with this form.

Gardens, classified according to the base site and development methods, can be divided into artificial landscape gardens and natural landscape gardens. The artificial landscape garden is to dig a water body on the flat land, build a rockery, artificially construct the landscape landform, create buildings and configure flowers and trees, and shrink and copy the natural landscape landscape into a small range. However, the natural landscape garden generally chooses the part of the natural landscape as the base site for the construction of the garden, and makes appropriate adjustments, transformations, construction buildings and configuration of flowers and trees according to local conditions in the original landform. The characteristic of this kind of garden is that with the help of the natural beauty of the natural landscape, the cost is not large, and the natural landscape is far better than the artificial landscape garden.

From the classification of the affiliation of the garden, it can be divided into royal gardens, private gardens and temple gardens. Royal gardens are often called gardens, palaces, palaces, imperial gardens, etc., because the royal family has abundant financial resources, and often has the planning idea of the supremacy of imperial power, it is often carved beams and painted buildings, and it is splendid.

Private gardens belong to nobles, bureaucrats, gentry, and literati, and are generally called gardens, villas, other industries, thatched cottages, and so on. Because most of them are "residential gardens" at the same time, they are attached to the mansion as a place for the owner to rest, entertain, meet friends, and read, although the scale is not large, but it often reveals a kind of delicacy from the site selection planning to the construction and maintenance and addition after the completion of the garden, and often leaves many exquisite scenery.

Temple view garden refers to the garden attached to Buddhist temples and Taoist temples. It often retains the unique form of religion and has a special religious atmosphere.

Ye Tao, who has long known the classification of gardens, has been ready to fight Yuantong, so he naturally chose the most effective first move: Temple View Garden. The graphics he depicted are classics in the temple garden, and he came from the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province of that era.

Starting from the mountain gate, with Ye Tao's pen, classic landscapes have appeared one after another. Thousand Buddha Hall, Lixue Pavilion, Chuzu Nunnery, Tallinn ...... When the buildings with strong Buddhist characteristics appeared on the paper and appeared in the eyes of everyone, the entire Mingyulou gradually quieted down. Everyone was surprised to find that those complex and exquisite buildings, those exquisite and ingenious combinations, appeared so naturally in Ye Tao's hands, as if they didn't need to think about it; And those patterns on the stone tablets and beams and columns that can be seen under such a scale, Ye Tao automatically and consciously drew them with his hands, without hesitation or modification, as if such a grand and solemn complex had long existed in Ye Tao's chest, and all he did was to depict it according to the realistic picture.

Shaolin Temple is really too big, even according to Ye Tao's standards, his schematic drawing is very rough, and he drew it really quickly, and it took a whole hour to complete the whole picture. This is not the end, immediately afterwards, Ye Tao changed to another pen, dipped it in red ink, marked the number sequence everywhere on the drawing, and made detailed annotations according to these number sequences in the long strip blank space left on the edge of the drawing. There are descriptions of the function and structure of the building, descriptions of the types of flowers and trees, and different couplets hanging in front of different buildings.

A schematic diagram of a garden may not be convincing, no matter how magnificent it is, no matter how strict the law is, after all, it may still be out of conjecture. However, these annotations make it very clear that Ye Tao has really considered this huge temple complex, for each building inside, for the specific details and feasibility. And those couplets, for these spectators around, are undoubtedly extremely original, not only the words are beautiful and elegant, but also show that Ye Tao has some good understanding of Buddhism, just this is like two slaps in the face of Yuantong.

When he finally completed the schematic diagram of the entire Shaolin Temple, he breathed a long sigh of relief, glanced at Yuantong who was now sitting on the side with a pale face defiantly, and glanced at the surrounding people who were beginning to be amazed, ignoring Luo Qin's cold gaze and Song Yu's interested eyes not far away, and then ordered Lu Dan: "Change the paper." We're just getting started. ”