《园冶》一书,系明末苏州筑园名家计成的作品,内容丰富,文字瑰丽,是作者毕生实践上升为理论的名著,深为国内外园林界所欣赏。由于原著是三百年前的作品,古典文体对广大读者来说不够大众化,而且原著经过多次的传写、刻版、以及校勘者的误解,不可避免地产生错漏、衍文等等差错,增加阅读上的困难。热心传播我国古代园林艺术的学者,不辞艰辛,加以注释,使原文含义能为广大读者所理解。用意良善。古文今译是艰巨而精深的工作,近年来出版的《园冶注释》一书,是园林界的好消息,这种为读者 The book “Yuanye” is a masterpiece written by famous architects in Suzhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It is rich in content and magnificent in character. It is a masterpiece of the author’s life-long practice as a theory, and is deeply appreciated by garden circles at home and abroad. Since the original work was three hundred years ago, the classical style is not popular enough for readers, and after many times of original writing, engraving, and misunderstanding by the collator, the original text inevitably resulted in mistakes, errors, etc., increasing. Reading difficulties. Scholars who are enthusiastic about spreading the art of ancient Chinese gardens are hard at work and are annotated so that the meaning of the original can be understood by readers. Good intentions. The ancient and modern translations are arduous and intensive work. The book “Annotation of Garden and Metallurgy” published in recent years is a good news for the garden community. This is a reader.