In order to recreate the natural setting, they stopped at nothing, even "employing a giant ship, mobilizing 1000 workers, and digging up the river bed" to get strange rocks and curious plants from remote places.
為了再造自然，不惜「載以大舟、挽以千伕、鑿河斷橋」地自遠地取來太湖奇石、珍禽異草。