What are the characteristics of Zen style decoration?

Zen home style is one of the popular home decoration styles in recent years. It is different from the luxury and publicity of European and American style, and it is different from the natural freshness of pastoral style. Compared with the toughness of Chinese style, it is more focused on elegance. A kind of artistic conception, transcendent and refined. It is mainly divided into Chinese style and Japanese style.

Chinese-style courtyards are more neutral in color, mostly off-white. The composition is dominated by curves, with emphasis on winding paths leading to seclusion. The courtyard structures are mainly made of wooden pavilions, terraces, corridors and pavilions. The moon-shaped gates and lattice-style black tiles and pink walls play the role of blocking, guiding or dividing sight lines and paths. Garden plants have clear meanings and strict placement. For example, bamboos are planted behind the house, osmanthus is planted in front of the hall, peonies and peonies are planted in the flower beds, sycamores are planted in front of the steps, plantains at the corner, white pine trees on the slopes, lotus are planted in the pool, bamboos and stalagmites are used for the scenery, stone tables and chairs are used for the sketches, and solitary ornamental stones are used.

Although the Japanese garden has its own style, it also originated from Chinese culture. In the process of imitating traditional Chinese landscape courtyards, Japanese-style courtyards gradually got rid of the poetic and picturesque and moved towards the realm of dry landscape, forming the well-known "dry landscape" courtyard. In addition, there are several types of Japanese-style courtyards, including rake garden. A Zen garden with fine sand texture, a classical pedestrian garden integrating lakes, bridges and natural features, and a secluded tea garden surrounded by bamboo fences.

Japanese-style courtyards pay more attention to the decoration of the ground. Wooden materials, especially wooden platforms, are often used in Japanese-style courtyards. In traditional Japanese-style courtyards, irregular cobblestones and river stones are usually used as paving materials, as well as gravel, residual wood, moss stone groups and bamboo fences. The plants in the courtyard mostly use evergreen trees, such as Japanese black pine, cedar, podocarpus, cypress, etc. In addition, there are also colored leaf tree species, such as ginkgo, maple, red maple, cherry blossom and rhododendron. Plants are often placed at key locations in the courtyard using traditional stoneware.

However, in terms of gardening techniques, traditional Chinese gardens "advocate nature and follow nature", making use of natural conditions within a limited space, simulating the beautiful scenery in nature, and integrating buildings, landscapes, plants, etc. Organically integrated into one, the natural beauty and the artificial beauty are unified, creating an artistic complex that is harmonious with the natural environment and harmonious with nature and man. In addition, the technique of "seeing the big from the small" is also commonly used, using methods such as blocking the view, borrowing the view, looking up, extending and increasing the undulations of the garden path, and using contrasts such as size, height, straightness, virtuality and reality to expand the sense of space. The symbolic landscape is the most important element of the courtyard, followed by the architectural style, flowers and trees.