Gardens in China tend to be a lot more colorful then their Japanese counterparts. On the other hand, they still employ a high quality of thought in their careful design. This garden was probably the only "authentic" Chinese garden I visited while in China. Unfortunately, almost all the extensive landscape construction done today over there lacks any depth of design and tends to serve as just a "pretty" facade. Overall, I was really glad to actually visit this garden since it allowed me to see some of the better aspects of authentic Chinese design.
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That's very true. It's typical for people (especially non-Asian) to think red & gold color for any Asian culture. But when I think of Japanese color, it's black, white, olive green & maybe sakura pink.
I'm glad that you noticed that too. :)
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