What is the dry landscape courtyard and its characteristics?

Ganjing Garden is a miniature garden landscape that originated in Japan, and it is more common in small, quiet and profound Zen temples. In its unique environmental atmosphere, several stone groups paved and stacked with fine harrow white sandstone can exert magical power on people's mood. Like music, painting and literature, it can express profound philosophy. Many of its ideas come from Zen and Taoism, which is also closely related to the introduction of ancient mainland culture.

The real dry landscape garden in history originated in Kamakura era, but reached its climax in Muromachi era. During the Muromachi period in Japan, nobles and Zen monks were the upper class of society at that time. Nobles built gardens for recreation in their own residences, while Zen monks built gardens to build places for self-cultivation and self-cultivation. At first, they expressed the meaning of mountain island through stones placed in the open space. The famous Longan Temple Garden in Du Jing, which was born in this period, is the representative of Ganjing Garden.

As early as in Ping 'an's gardening monograph Zuo Ting Ji, it was written: "Stone and white sand are put in the land without pool and water, resulting in dry mountains and rivers. Dry landscape garden is dominated by stones, white sand and moss. This is its characteristic.

And use different shapes and sizes of white sand and stones to combine nature. The so-called dry scenery is to use stones and pebbles to create remote villas, slowly undulating mountains, or to create images of villages falling on mountains. "The dry landscape garden mentioned in it is not the kind of dry landscape with sand instead of water and stone instead of island, but only refers to the courtyard without water. But the "dry landscape" at that time can be said to have the embryonic form of dry landscape in later generations.