("Kusansui" garden is a miniature garden landscape originated from the Japanese mainland, mostly found in small, quiet, deep Zen temples. In the unique atmosphere of the environment, the white sandstone pavement, which is carefully raked, and a few stones stacked in an orderly manner, can have a magical power on the human mind. Like music, painting and literature, it expresses deep philosophies, many of which are derived from Zen Buddhism, which is closely related to the introduction of ancient continental culture.
In 538 A.D., Japan embraced Buddhism and sent some students and craftsmen to ancient China to learn about inland arts and culture. 13th century, another Buddhist sect from China, Zen Buddhism, became popular in Japan, and to reflect the austerity and self-discipline pursued by Zen practitioners, the Japanese gardens began to reject the old pond and spring gardens and instead used static, unchanging elements such as evergreens, mosses, sand, gravel, and so on. Instead, they used static and unchanging elements such as evergreen trees, moss, sand, gravel, and so on, to create gardens with dry landscapes and hardly any flowering plants, in order to achieve the goal of self-cultivation.
So, the Zen garden, trees, rocks, sky, land, etc. is often a few strokes that contains a very deep meaning, in the eyes of practitioners, they are the ocean, mountains, islands, waterfalls, a sand, a world, such gardens are tantamount to a kind of spiritual garden. Later, the development of such gardens and the ultimate - trees and shrubs, bridges, islands and even garden indispensable water and other garden elements are removed, leaving only the rock, rake the sand and gravel and spontaneous growth and a piece of mossy ground in the shade, which is typical of the popularity of the Japanese wither landscaped gardens of the main constituent elements. The power of the garden to shock the human spirit is also amazing.
------ said it is the style of decoration is certainly not bad. More importantly, it should be a spiritual realm of enlightenment
Coconut weaving - that is, the fabric made of coconut silk (taken from coconut trees)
Coconut weaving - that is, the fabric made of coconut silk (taken from coconut trees)