What are the characteristics of stone appreciation culture in Ming Dynasty?

In the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan Garden became smaller and smaller, but it did not lose its restrained interest and freehand brushwork, and pursued the beauty of garden space in the form of "a pot of heaven and earth" and "mustard seeds full of sumeru". Li Yu's "Mustard Garden", the author of "Random Thoughts" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, also adopted this idea.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhenheng said in the Chronicle of Shuishi: "One peak is too bright for Chihiro, and one spoon is Wan Li." It is the artistic conception of seeing the big from the small. At the end of Ming Dynasty, the Jade Mountain Garden of Qi Biao's family had two scenic spots, namely "sleeve sea" and "hidden bottle", which had the interest of "drying up in sleeve and heaven and earth in bottle".

However, Ji Cheng said in Yuan Ye Yishan: "There are many scenic spots, mountains close at hand, ... and paintings with profound meanings, which show the characteristics of stone appreciation culture at that time."

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Zheng brothers of Yangzhou family had four gardens, which were known as the fourth famous garden in the south of the Yangtze River. Among them, Zheng Yuanxun, a scholar-bureaucrat of poetry and painting, is a model of seeing the big from the small.