Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden

Many renowned later Chinese painters, like Qi Baishi, began their drawing lessons with the manual.

The work was commissioned by Shen Xinyou (沈心友), whose mansion in Lanxi, Zhejiang province was known as Jieziyuan, or Mustard Seed Garden.

[1] Two more parts, which deal with the painting of flora and fauna, were produced by Wang and his two brothers and published 1701.

Chao Xun (巢勛) (1852–1917), dissatisfied with the fake, produced his own sequel, as well as carefully reproduced the first three volumes.

With a translation of the Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 1679–1701, was made by Mai-mai Sze and published in New York in 1956.