LiDe ZaoYuan: Crafting Serenity in the Urban Jungle Discover the Zen of LiDe ZaoYuan's Gardens: A Retreat in the Heart of the City
As the city's skyscrapers climb ever upwards among steel and concrete, a reverse force is quietly growing. In the courtyards crafted by LiDe ZaoYuan, a shallow pond reflects meticulously stacked stone mountains, and a few gnarled old pine trees stand against the wall. A winding path of青stone leads to a tranquil tea room. These small realms are transforming the ancient literati ideal of "Jiezi Naxi Mi, Hu Zhong Cang RiYue" into a tangible breathing space. In this interview, NetEase Home visits the mastermind behind LiDe ZaoYuan, Huiye, to explore the spiritual sanctuary behind the high-end gardens.
With the pace of urban life accelerating and "involution" becoming the norm, a yearning for tranquility and connection with nature is spreading among urban residents in China. The garden space is regaining unprecedented attention at the center of Chinese family life.
LiDe positions itself as a creator of "retreat in the wilderness, nurturing the body and mind." This philosophy is rooted in the ancient Eastern wisdom of "if advancing, to be a dignitary; if retreating, to be a mountain man." Huiye, the mastermind behind LiDe ZaoYuan, explains, "We strive to balance the binary relationship between the city and the mountains, reconstructing a 'Sheltered Paradise' in the garden, creating courtyard spaces that bring peace, nourishment, and awakening to life."
"Creating courtyard spaces that bring peace, nourishment, and awakening to life." This poetic declaration is rooted in LiDe's profound insight into the state of existence of Chinese people. Huiye explains, "The character 'an' (peace) comes from the ancient wisdom of 'settled and happy in one's work,' where the garden is to become a harbor for the soul, because 'only with peace of mind can one manage life well'; 'nourishment' is symbolized by the structure of the character, with three dots of water and the imagery of plants, implying spiritual shelter for urbanites; 'life awakening' draws from the Tao Te Ching's 'the Tao follows its nature,' allowing the silence of plants to narrate the laws of the universe, enlightening a从容 life state."
As the noise of the city淹没了心灵的堤岸,LiDe's gardens construct a spiritual barrier in the small courtyard, redefining high-end gardens with three advantages: using Eastern aesthetics to deconstruct modern anxiety, 95% accurate design drawings, and beyond visual beauty, creating a space that nourishes the body and mind. When urbanites open the garden gate, at that moment—the jungle of steel and concrete fades away, and the true essence of mountains and rivers returns. This hidden retreat in a small space finally becomes the spiritual homeland for the souls of contemporary Chinese people.
Whether it's peace, nourishment, or life awakening, there is a philosophy of slowness. In the current era of national fashion that is prone to symbolism, LiDe ZaoYuan refuses to become a "fast-consumption" product of aesthetics. Huiye believes that "beauty is achieved through long-lasting," and when the浮躁 commercial logic tries to compress gardens into immediate visual symbols of satisfaction, LiDe chooses to return to the "Dao heart"—with the values of "thick virtue carries things" as the foundation and the skills of "craftsmanship to the utmost" as the support, making gardens into containers that carry time and spirit.
From focusing on functional rationality and visual beauty to creating practical spaces; to pursuing joy of the soul and spiritual purification to create healing heavens; to inspiring inner wisdom through the growth and decay of plants, LiDe's gardens have completed a leap from physical space to spiritual medium. However, the core value of LiDe has always been consistent, that is, to finally "create a beautiful environment and make more lives better" as the original intention, "start with the end in mind" in the fast-paced commercial wave and adhere to long-termism.
In the current era when the industry has not yet formed a mature category, LiDe is trying to define the rules of the game of high-end gardening. In the next three to five years, its layout is clearly directed to three dimensions: conveying the value of garden environment on life, implementing more works of nourishment for the body and mind, and iterating and upgrading in terms of design, materials, and construction, practicing craftsmanship to the utmost. This closed-loop logic from value advocacy to practical implementation to professional deepening not only creates the brand uniqueness of "Mountain and Water Literati Courtyard" but also directly points to the core issue of the industry: the true value of gardens does not lie in the visual surprise at a moment, but in the continuous nourishment led by the 'heart' (Fa Xin); not in the rapid replication of commercial logic, but in the profound reconstruction of the relationship between 'people-space-nature'.
This is not only LiDe's path of practice but also the founder Huiye's earnest advice to young people in the industry—love as the premise, Eastern culture as the support, aesthetics as the foundation, and professionalism as the basis. When the industry is still chasing the "bestseller" effect, LiDe has already quietly become the "definer" of garden spirit.
As gardens evolve from decorative spaces to life sanctuaries, when every stone and tree becomes a mirror reflecting the inner self, this company writes not only a history of gardening but also a modern experiment on how Chinese people can settle their bodies and minds. Taking the beauty of the heavens and earth to nourish the body, turning the mind with the environment to clarify the mind, in the jungle of steel and concrete, those carefully awakened mountains and rivers are quietly reshaping our understanding of 'home'—it is not only a place of residence for the body but also a mountain of retreat for the soul and nature to converse.
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